Crusading in Art, Thought and Will

This volume captures the diversity of approaches in crusade scholarship, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. Essays by the contributors study the role of art and architecture, liturgy, legal practice, literature, and politics in the institution of crusade.

Matthew E. Parker, Ph.D. (2018), Saint Louis University, is a Teaching Fellow at that university. He has published articles in Viator (2014) and Mediterranean Historical Review (2017), and most recently in the edited volume Papacy, Crusade, and Christian-Muslim Relations (2018).

Ben Halliburton is a doctoral candidate at Saint Louis University studying the marquises of Montferrat. His most recent publication is "Pro Deo et Amore Marchionis: Honorius III, William VI of Montferrat, and the Fifth Crusade in Greece" in Papacy, Crusade, and Christian-Muslim Relations.

Anne Romine completed a Ph.D. in history at Saint Louis University in 2015, with a dissertation on crusade and chivalric reform in the fourteenth century. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Saint Louis University’s Vatican Film Library.