The Cambridge History of the Crusades: Volume 2, Crusade and Settlement

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. She is a historian of high and late medieval cultural and religious history, and has written on (Saint) Louis IX, the Capetians, royal ideology, the Crusades, Liturgy, Relics, and royal ideology. Among other books, she is the author of Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and Making of Crusade Ideology (2017).

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of several books on aspects of medieval religious life, including The Monastic World: A 1200 Year History (2024); Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States (2020), with Bernard Hamilton; he has also co-edited four collections of essays, most recently A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage (2024), with William Purkis.

Thomas Madden is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. His previous books include The Fall of Republics: A History (2026), Istanbul (2016), and Venice: A New History (2012).

Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His most recent book was the widely-translated The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (2019). Earlier titles include Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (2009); The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom (2007); and The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (2004). He was also co-editor of Crusades (2009–25).