Alcoholism is always problematic…but there was a time when it saved the #crusades . Read on to find out more about unintended consequences…!
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Luciano Anastasi Medievalists.net Pitchford Estate Lorenzo Mercuri SSCLE Yale University Press London📚 #medievaltwitter

The Murder of the Bishop of Acre in 1172, by Steve Tibble medievalists.net/2024/05/murder… #truecrime

The #Crusades were a time of war.
But the boundaries between war and peace, between criminality and soldiering, and between civilians and warriors were easily blurred.
For some true crusader crimes on the Second Crusade, read on...
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Luciano Anastasi

Join us on 14-15 Sept for The Marches of Time History Festival at Stokesay Court & Pitchford Estate
Tickets marchesoftime.co.uk/book-now
With James Wright Catherine Beale Steve Tibble Robert Hardman Carole Souter Sally Coulthard Lady Anne Glenconner
#Shropshire #Ludlow #Shrewsbury #History

Had a wonderful evening listening to Steve Tibble discussing crusader armies. Massively informative and completely changed my perspective! Can't wait for tomorrow!

#Ludlow #Shropshire #History #historian

The #Templar Mysteries - the wonderful Danièle Cybulskie and I deconstruct some legends and conspiracy theories on her hugely entertaining Medieval podcast series...Have a listen below!

Medievalists.net Yale University Press London📚 #medieval #crusades

medievalists.net/2023/08/templa…

The Crusaders and Gaza, by Steve Tibble medievalists.net/2024/03/crusad… #medieval #crusades

Would you fight an unwinnable war?

Living your life in a military train crash - lessons from a medieval war…read my latest article below. ⁦⁦Yale University Press London📚⁩ Luciano Anastasi⁩ ⁦Medievalists.net⁩ #crusades #medievalwar historymedieval.com/strategy-and-a…

The shocking bloodbath that almost ended the crusades…read on below…
#crusades #medieval #strategy Yale University Press London📚

Managing defeat isn’t sexy…but it was a necessity for the crusader states…read on below! ⁦Yale University Press London📚⁩ ⁦Luciano Anastasi⁩ #strategy #crusades #medievalhistory historymedieval.com/fighting-a-los…

Beautiful venue…really looking forward to this…

Wonderful conversation with a real expert…

One thing was clear to even the most untalented strategic thinker amongst the Crusaders – they needed to recover at least some of the old Christian inland cities of the Holy Land if they were to create a defence in depth…read on to find out how!

Running #halfmarathon together with HistoryExtra and Steve Tibble across some of the medieval beauties 🏰

This week the lovely people at Oxford University Press have reissued my first book, the snappily titled ‘Monarchy and Lordships in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem’ (1989). I was going to make a joke about “the longest pre-order wait on Amazon” but then realised that Amazon didn’t even exist!

Crusader Fleets: A Missing Ingredient by Steve Tibble medievalists.net/2024/03/crusad… #crusades #medieval

'...scenes are set magnificently, readers are drawn into the world, and academic arguments are made both readable and interesting.' We enjoyed this one so much that we're really looking forward to Steve Tibble's next one, 'Crusader Criminals', due out in July.

A very thoughtful review of 'Templars - The Knights Who Made Britain' by Steven Port on the lovely Get History website...read on:
gethistory.co.uk/reviews/book-r…