Graduate Student, History and Classics
Thesis Title: Reconstruction and Rebirth: The Kingdom of Jerusalem 1187-1233
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John France
Dan Power |
About
I have just entered the third year of my PhD at Swansea University, supervised by Professor John France and Professor Daniel Power.
My thesis is set to examine the reconstruction efforts of the Franks of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the wake of the disaster of Hattin in 1187, to the end of the first period of significant combat of the civil war in 1233. This particular period of time is often neglected by historians of the crusades, who readily move on from the Third, to Fourth and then Fifth Crusades, with little thought as to the occurrences in the Latin East at the same time. The History of the Kingdom of Jerusalem has been neglected in favour of the events of the crusading movement as a whole. My aim is to analyse the respective factors that contributed to the re-genesis of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in these years, and then to examine and indentify how this process ultimately changed the nature of Frankish society in the Latin East in socio-political and economic terms, as well as understand how a new society that survived for another century came to be formed in these crucial years.
My other research interests lie in the study of the Latin East, Byzantium, the Medieval Mediterranean and Crusading History in general.
I teach first year students at Swansea University in the core Medieval Module
I am also Assistant Book Reviews Editor to the British Journal for the History of Science working under Dr Adam Mosely. I am also a member of the Royal Historical Society.
I presented a paper at IMC 2011 on the War of St. Sabas and shall be returning in 2010 to presen upon the Livre au Roi and the Laws of the early 13th Century Kingdom of Jerusalem.
