Thomas Scott Asbridge (born 1969) is a historian at Queen Mary University of London,[1] a position he has held since 1999.[2] He is the author of The First Crusade: A New History (2004), a book which describes the background, events, and consequences of the First Crusade, as well as of The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land (2010), a volume providing a view on the crusading movement, portraying the ideas of justified violence and jihad.
Asbridge graduated from Cardiff University with a BA in Ancient and Medieval History, before earning his PhD at the Royal Holloway, University of London.[3] Asbridge's first major work was a revised version of his doctoral thesis, entitled The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130.[4] Asbridge also wrote and presented a three-part BBC Two series on The Crusades, and was the historical consultant for Kingdom of Heaven (2005).
Asbridge has, more recently, expanded his retinue with books on Medieval England and France, the first major release being The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones in 2015,[5] based on the life of William Marshal, a knight within Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry the Young King, and Richard I's retinue. Asbridge presented a BBC documentary on Marshal in 2014.[6] He wrote a book for the Penguin Books monarch series on Richard I which came out in 2018.
^"Dr Tom Asbridge Senior Lecturer in Medieval History". Queen Mary, University of London. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
^"Dr Tom Asbridge". School of History. Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
^"Dr Tom Asbridge. Senior Lecturer in Medieval History". School of History. Queen Mary University of London. Archived from the original on 12 January 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
^Rubenstein, Jay (1 November 2011). Armies of Heaven. The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse. Printed 2011. Basic Books. p. 402. doi:10.1017/S0009640713001273. ISBN 9780465019298. OCLC 795454364.
^Asbridge, Thomas. "The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones". Thomasasbridge.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018.
^"The Greatest Knight: William the Marshal". BBC Programmes. BBC. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
Thomas Scott Asbridge (born 1969) is a historian at Queen Mary University of London, a position he has held since 1999. He is the author of The First...
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Putnam. Asbridge, Thomas (2000). The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098–1130. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85115-661-3. Asbridge, Thomas (2004)...
Alexius I (1081 to 1118) restored stability to Byzantium. Historian ThomasAsbridge says: "In 1071, the Seljuqs crushed an imperial army at the Battle...
ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3. ThomasAsbridge, The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land, (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010), pp.137–144. ThomasAsbridge, The Crusades:...
197–198. Asbridge 2004, p. 142. Asbridge 2004, p. 143. Asbridge 2004, p. 144. Runciman 1989a, pp. 198–199. Tyerman 2006, p. 132. Asbridge 2004, p. 145...
be trusted, but that this option could be chronologically possible. ThomasAsbridge and N.E. Stacy, as well as other authors, mention Gilbert (Giffard)...
XIII, Ch. 26. The most up-to-date works about the First Crusade are ThomasAsbridge, The First Crusade: A New History (Oxford: 2004) and Christopher Tyerman...
177–178. Asbridge, Thomas (2000). The Creation of the Principality of Antioch: 1098–1130. The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-661-3. Asbridge, Thomas (2012)...
France, 1901). Page 186 to 187 ThomasAsbridge. The Greatest Knight. (New York: Harper Collins, 2014). Page 302 ThomasAsbridge. The Greatest Knight. (New...
expected the crusaders to take up a defensive position. Historian ThomasAsbridge notes that "The fate of the entire crusade had been gambled on Bohemond's...
Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne. pp. 131–147. ISBN 9782859448301. Thomas, Asbridge (2016), The crusades: the authoritative history of the war for the...
Lock 2006, pp. 20–21. Asbridge 2004, p. 110. Runciman 1989a, p. 150. Asbridge 2004, pp. 111, 117. Asbridge 2004, pp. 142–143. Asbridge 2004, p. 143. Runciman...
Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 74. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3. The Crusades by ThomasAsbridge, p. 125 Battles and sieges, Tony Jaques The Crusades and the expansion...
driven by "fanaticism" rather than, or in addition to "necessity". ThomasAsbridge states that, while the "cannibalism at Marrat is among the most infamous...
extensively documented in primary and secondary sources. See for example ThomasAsbridge, The First Crusade: A New History (Oxford: 2004); Tyerman, Christopher...
Preservation Consortium) The Crusades The War For The Holy Land by ThomasAsbridge page 114 (p.3) to page 115 Ibn al-Athir vol. 2, p. 320; Hillenbrand...
Hermetic iconography Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999), America, Mormons ThomasAsbridge (born 1969), Crusades Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England...
Tyre, Historia 10.15. Petersen, 2001, pp. 129-130 The Crusades by ThomasAsbridge, pg. 123-124. Pringle, 1997, pp. 43-45 Meyers (1999:381). Marica, Patrizia...
Runciman 1951, pp. 239–240. Runciman 1951, p. 245. Runciman 1951, p. 248. Asbridge, Thomas S. (2000). The creation of the Principality of Antioch : 1098–1130...
Asbridge 2000, pp. 159–160. Kennedy 1994, p. 85. Asbridge 2000, p. 160. Buck 2017, p. 130. Asbridge 2000, pp. 143–144. Asbridge 2000, p. 89. Asbridge...
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succession to the Scottish throne. Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade, The Free Press, 2004, p. 188. Asbridge, Thomas S. (2000). The Creation of the Principality...
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