Dr Andrew D. Buck

Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East, by Anna Gutgarts On 15 July 1099, the Latin Christian forces of the First Crusade broke into Jerusalem and put much of the city’s populace to the sword in a startling act o

Andrew D Buck @andrewdbuck.bsky.social reviews 'Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East', by Anna Gutgarts

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One for the Medievalists... If you wanted to set one (rel. short and not necessarily without flaws) piece to intro students to the broad span of medieval "mentalities", what would would you set? Currently I'm favouring something from Le Goff's Medieval Civilization, despite its dating

Very much agreed. That language also then gets fed into promotions criteria which further perpetuates the cycle.

I really wish some people would be more discerning with the word "groundbreaking", especially when you're not actually an expert in the field in which you think new ground is apparently being broke. Something can be very good without need for ridiculous hyperbole.

As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Oh look, another self-important, uninformed, privileged, PPE-graduate journo talking absolute guff about HE and the Guardian printing it... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you ever wanted to see what Dystopia looks like, just go through the staff list of the "Change Management" consultancy firm your employer has brought in to gut your institution and ruin people's lives and careers.

Ha! Perhaps... :)

Congratulations on the publication!

Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100–c. 1300 Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Amidst a sea of fire, to receive such a glowing review from a scholar I hugely admire, is a lovely thing.

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Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100–c. 1300 Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Amidst a sea of fire, to receive such a glowing review from a scholar I hugely admire, is a lovely thing.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very excited to take receipt of this new book by @rachelschine.bsky.social just ahead of Christmas and having time to actually read...

Saw someone posting about being in a pseudo-Crusading order on the other place and that's about enough of that.

Also really delighted that this volume is now out in the world - I'm immensely proud of it as co-editor and contributor.

For those interested, mine and Sue Edgington's new edition, translation, and commentary on a little-known 12th-century (c.1190) Jerusalemite text now available OA with Crusades: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A bit slow to get going, though...