Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith, K.St.J., Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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, Litt.D., FRHistS (born 27 June 1938) is an historian of the Crusades, and a former Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History

Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History

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. He is a Fellow

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 of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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He was educated at Eton College

Eton College

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, where he took his BA (1960), MA (1964), PhD (1964), and LittD (2001).

During his career, he has taught at the University of St Andrews

University of St Andrews

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, Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College, Cambridge

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, Royal Holloway College, London as well as at Trinity College.

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, Sovereign Military Order of Malta and a Knight of Justice, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem

Venerable Order of Saint John

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He is married with three children.

Works

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)