Jonathan Riley-Smith
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Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith GCStJ FRHistS |
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Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History University of Cambridge |
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In office 1994–2011 |
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Preceded by | Christopher N. L. Brooke |
Succeeded by | David Maxwell |
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Born | Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith 27 June 1938 |
Spouse(s) | Louise |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith, GCStJ, FRHistS (born 27 June 1938) is a historian of the Crusades,[1] and a former Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Early life[edit]
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his BA (1960), MA (1964), PhD (1964), and LittD (2001).
Academic career[edit]
During his career, he has taught at the University of St Andrews, Queens' College, Cambridge, Royal Holloway College, London as well as at Trinity College. His many respected publications on the origins of the crusading movement and the motivations of the first crusaders have deeply influenced the current historiography of the crusades. [2]
He was a founder of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. He is also a Knight of Grace and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Riley-Smith is married to Louise, an artist.[4]
Works[edit]
Books:
- The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus, c.1050-1310 (London, Macmillan, 1967 repr. 2002)
- Ayyubids, Mamlukes and Crusaders. Selections from the Tarikh al-Duwal wa'l Muluk of Ibn al-Furat (with Ursula and Malcolm C. Lyons), 2 vols. (Cambridge, Heffer, 1971)
- The Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174-1277 (London, Macmillan, 1973 repr 2002)
- What Were the Crusades? (London, Macmillan, 1977 2nd edition 1992 3rd edition Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002)
- The Crusades: Idea and Reality, 1095-1274 (with Louise Riley-Smith) (London, Edward Arnold, 1981)
- The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (London and Philadelphia, Athlone/ University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, paperback US 1990, UK 1993)
- The Crusades: A Short History -London and New Haven, Athlone/ Yale University Press, 1987, also in paperback) � (translated into French, Italian and Polish)
- The Atlas of the Crusades (editor) (London and New York, Times Books/ Facts on File, 1991) - (translated into German and French)
- The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (editor) (Oxford,Oxford University Press, 1995, paperback 1997) � (now reissued as The Oxford History of the Crusades, paperback, 1999) - (translated into Russian, German and Polish)
- Cyprus and the Crusades (editor, with Nicholas Coureas) (Nicosia, Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East and Cyprus Research Centre, 1995)
- Montjoie: Studies in Crusade History in Honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer (editor, with Benjamin Z. Kedar and Rudolf Hiestand) (Aldershot, Variorum, 1997)
- The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, paperback 1998, 2000)
- Hospitallers: The History of the Order of St. John (London, The Hambledon Press, 1999, also in paperback)
- Al seguito delle Crociate Rome (Di Renzo: Dialoghi � Uomo e Societΰ), 2000
- Dei gesta per Francos: Etudes sur les croisades dιdiιes ΰ Jean Richard (editor, with M.Balard and B.Z.Kedar) Aldershot (Ashgate), 2001
- The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Columbia University Press, 2008)
- The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant 1070-1309 (Basingstoke, 2012)
References[edit]
- ^ Andy Soltis; Richard Johnson (5 May 2005). "Knight Clubbing - Historians' Jihad Vs. 'Heaven'". New York Post. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
- ^ https://apholt.com/2016/06/08/jonathan-riley-smith-on-the-motivations-of-the-first-crusaders/
- ^ London Gazette
- ^ "Cambridge colleges head porters in portrait show". BBC News. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
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- 1938 births
- Living people
- English Christians
- Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge
- English historians
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Bailiffs Grand Cross of the Order of St John
- Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Historians of the Crusades
- People educated at Eton College
- People from Harrogate
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- English male writers