Thomas Asbridge

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Dr Thomas Asbridge is a University of London medieval history scholar.[1] He is the author of The First Crusade: A New History,[1] a book which describes the background, events, and consequences of the First Crusade, "The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land", a book providing a view on the crusading movement, portraying the ideas of justified violence and jihad and The Creation of the Principality of Antioch,1098-1130[2]

Asbridge graduated from Cardiff University with a BA in Ancient and Medieval History, before studying for a PhD at the Royal Holloway, University of London.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Dr Tom Asbridge Senior Lecturer in Medieval History". Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 
  2. Asbridge(2000) (Woodbridge. UK. Boydell Press, 2004 Used as reference in Jay Rubenstein's Armies of Heaven. The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse. Printed 2011.
  3. http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/asbridget.html
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