Spencer's study emerges as a bold, innovative, and much-needed addition to the canon of crusade historiography.
Stephen J. Spencer completed his doctorate at Queen Mary University of London, where he taught on the crusades, Islam and the West, knighthood and chivalry, and medieval mentalities. He is currently a Past and Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, conducting research on the memorialization of the Third Crusade in western Europe and the Latin East before 1300.