Professor Peter Edbury
Emeritus Professor
Overview
Research interests
- Crusades
- Latin East
- Medieval Cyprus
- Old French literature from the Latin East
Research project
- A new edition of the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre and the associated text known as La Chronique d'Ernoul is now with the publisher.
- A monograph on the Latin East, 1254-1291
Distinctions
To mark his retirement a one-day conference was held in October 2012, and the papers read were published as a Festschrift: Susan B. Edgington and Helen J. Nicholson (eds.), Deeds Done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury (Ashgate, 2014)
Biography
Education
- MA Medieval History, St Andrews, 1970
- PhD, St Andrews, 1974
Career overview
- 1973-1977 – Research Lecturer, Christ Church, Oxford.
- 1977-2013 – Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, Reader and (from 2000) Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University