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 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
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