The SSCLE is a non profit international organization aimed to support the scholarly investigation of all aspects of the Crusades and the Latin Easthttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3muvx7gcrnk27Happy #ManuscriptMonday! This delightful historiated initial S depicts the Tomb of Christ within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, complete with its hanging lamp on folio 102v of a copy of William of Tyre's Chronicle [BnF, MS Français 9082]07 Sep 2026 07:08 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvx7gcrnk27https://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mujbpx5gls2rThe Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East mourns the loss of Dr Jean Mesqui, who passed away on 24 July 2026. https://www.sscle.org/post/in-memoriam-dr-jean-mesqui02 Sep 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujbpx5gls2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3msbake3flc2e📢 Conference Announcement Registration is now open for Rethinking Innocent IV and the Crusades: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry, an international hybrid conference taking place in London on 24–25 September 2026.04 Aug 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbake3flc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3muf5zwv7ec2cHappy #ManuscriptMonday! Today we will take a look at Élie de Saint-Gilles and Aiol et Mirabel, two chansons de geste from the early 13th century. They recount the adventures of Élie and his son Aiol. Much of the plot is set in a fictionalized Muslim Spain. (BnF, Français 25516, fol. 82r & 133v)31 Aug 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf5zwv7ec2chttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mu7buqjius2x🇲🇹⚔️📖 - Conference Announcement The IX International Military Orders Conference, "Documents and Monuments", will take place in Malta from 9 to 12 September 2026, organised by Emanuel Buttigieg and Valeria Vanesio. https://www.um.edu.mt/events/militaryorders2026/29 Aug 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7buqjius2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mtt37oau422jHappy #ManuscriptMonday! A striking image of the Turkish fleet arriving at the siege of Rhodes in 1480, from Guillaume Caoursin's Gestorum Rhodie obsidionis commentarii. 📍 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 6067, fol. 18r #MedievalManuscripts24 Aug 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtt37oau422jhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mtbbs77q3c25Happy #ManuscriptMonday with this wonderful view of Jerusalem from Konrad Grünenberg, Beschreibung der Reise von Konstanz nach Jerusalem (ca. 1487). Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek Cod. St. Peter, pap. 32, fol 35v-36r.17 Aug 2026 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbbs77q3c25https://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3msqhcwc2bk2zFor this #MonumentsMonday, we have some more pictures from the trip to the Templar Castle in Tomar, notably from the parts of the citadel built in the modern period when the site came into the hands of the Order of Christ. #crusade #crusades #academia #scholarship #sscle10 Aug 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqhcwc2bk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3msbake3flc2e📢 Conference Announcement Registration is now open for Rethinking Innocent IV and the Crusades: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry, an international hybrid conference taking place in London on 24–25 September 2026.04 Aug 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbake3flc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3ms6m5h64ls2jHappy #MonumentMonday! Next up from our conference trip to Tomar is the remarkable Charola in the Templar castle. #crusade #crusades #academia #scholarship03 Aug 2026 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6m5h64ls2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mrnfbkwbmc2sHappy #Monumentmonday! We will start sharing some impressions from the conference trip to Tomar in the coming weeks. First up is Santa Maria do Olival. #sscle202627 Jul 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnfbkwbmc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mrelsukxks2q🎊 Congratulations to Glauber Wisniewski, winner of the SSCLE Best Paper Prize 2026, presented at the 2026 SSCLE Conference in Porto. The prize was awarded to his "Jewish Participation in the Templar Occupation of Lleida: Economy and Society on the Aragonese Frontier (12th Century)".24 Jul 2026 05:14 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrelsukxks2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mrbwyxbdoc2s🎊 Congratulations to Ann E. Zimo, winner of the SSCLE Best First Book Prize 2026. The prize was awarded for her In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). https://www.sscle.org/post/sscle-awards-best-first-book-prize23 Jul 2026 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbwyxbdoc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mr5f2vfmxs2z🎊 Congratulations to Benjamin Z. Kedar and Thomas W. Smith, joint winners of the SSCLE Best Book Prize 2026, presented at the 2026 SSCLE Conference in Porto. Read the committee's remarks here: https://www.sscle.org/post/sscle-awards-best-book-prize-202621 Jul 2026 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5f2vfmxs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mqy6skpgz22w📚 #newrelease – Writing in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem: Inscription and Graffiti in a Multilingual and Multigraphic Perspective, edited by Estelle Ingrand-Varenne & Clément Dussart (Brepols, 2026) https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503619798-119 Jul 2026 06:49 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqy6skpgz22whttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mqmqurlwfk2e📚 #newrelease – Thomas Smith, The Fifth Crusade: A History of the Epic Campaign to Conquer Egypt (Yale University Press, 2026) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300283952/the-fifth-crusade/14 Jul 2026 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmqurlwfk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mqjoywb5ss2y📚 #newrelease – Gaëlle Audéon, La Septième croisade et le vrai Louis IX (Éditions Harmattan, 2026) https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/catalogue/livre/la-septieme-croisade-et-le-vrai-louis-ix-1/85974?srsltid=AfmBOorqvsL7oucSxom9CIyOXx-UltWhaftanbVXZkY_Z49oSgmy1ZDd13 Jul 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjoywb5ss2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mqdxdjnknc22📚 #newrelease – Encounters: The Crusades in 50 Objects, edited by Cathleen A. Fleck, Elizabeth Lapina, Richard A. Leson & Vardit Ruth Shotten (Routledge, June 2026) https://www.routledge.com/Encounters-The-Crusades-in-50-Objects/Fleck-Lapina-Leson-Shotten/p/book/978103201675711 Jul 2026 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqdxdjnknc22https://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mp6i7z54qs27📚 #newrelease – Mustafa Banister and Fadi Ragheb, eds., From Cairo to Jerusalem and Beyond: Studies of the Later Islamic Middle Period in Honor of Linda Stevens Northrup (Leiden: Brill, Islamic History and Civilization Series, 2026) https://brill.com/display/title/73063?srsltid=AfmBOoqo1YMMfrhacxR6_wdBHKv-o3uX1g8t4FExNs6V1w1l8zfWLjYY26 Jun 2026 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp6i7z54qs27https://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mjoaurqmoc2xThe SSCLE Conference t-shirt is on sale now! Pre-order it while stock last and pick it up at registration. £18 online, €20 cash at the conference. If you haven't registered yet, now is a good time. You can add your t-shirt to your registration! https://www.crusadespayment.online/registration/p/7warlyo8a67m6qy3wnv4a1fxl906ht17 Apr 2026 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoaurqmoc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mowsylwwvc2q🗓️ #TeamTuesday | Meet our Co-Social Media Editor This week we introduce Lorenzo Mercuri, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome, Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris, and Co-Social Media Editor of the SSCLE.23 Jun 2026 06:55 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mowsylwwvc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mov7pejj5k2nFor today’s #MaterialCultureMonday, we will take a look at these fantastic floor tiles from the Abbey of Chertsey, depicting a fictitious duel between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. (Pic credit: The Trustees of the British Museum)22 Jun 2026 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mov7pejj5k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/latineast.bsky.social/post/3mojzhiqmtc25📚 #newrelease – Jessalynn Lea Bird, Crusade and Reform in Latin Christendom: The Paris Masters against Heresy and Corruption, c.1179–c.1254 (Oxford University Press, June 2026)18 Jun 2026 04:46 +0000at://did:plc:dbat45v2kbvi66r7qdkvrybn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojzhiqmtc25