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The SSCLE has announced Glauber Wisniewski as the winner of the prize for best paper given by a postgraduate or early career researcher at the Society's 2026 conference in Porto.

The SSCLE awarded the 2026 Best Book Prize to Benjamin Kedar for Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem and Tom Smith for Rewriting the First Crusade.

The SSCLE has awarded the Ronnie Ellenblum Best First Book Prize to Ann Zimo, for her book In Plain Sight: Muslims in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024).

The Karak Castle and Town Documentation Project is an international project carried out in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. This post details some of the work undertaken by the project team

Registration for the SSCLE 2026 Porto conference is now open.

The call for papers for the 2026 SSCLE quadrennial conference in Porto (29 June–3 July 2026) is now open. Proposals for sessions of three 20-minute papers each, for individual papers and for round tables are welcome. Themes could include, but are not limited to: Politics, Religion and Culture Women and Gender The Muslim World and the Crusades New Sources, New Interpretations Art, Archaeology and Material Culture Military History Paper proposals should consist of a title, an a

On 7 June 1099, from the top of Montjoie hill, the Crusaders gaze at the horizon: the Holy City is there, still distant yet already...

Depicting the Holy War examines the impact that crusades in the Middle East had on societies in western Europe through the analysis of a...

The later Middle Ages and the early modern period were important and overlapping historical moments for both Venice and the Ottoman...