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First Name
Katy
Last Name
Mortimer
Country
United Kingdom
State
Affiliation
Royal Holloway, University of London
Website URL
https://tinyurl.com/KMortimer
Keywords
Crusades, Diplomacy, Peacemaking, Intercultural Contact, Medieval History Writing, Chronicles, Medieval Historiography, Historiography, Narrative Theory, Narratology
Availability
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PhD
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About Me

I am a PhD researcher in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. My thesis explores how medieval writers chose to represent incidents of Christian-Muslim Diplomacy within a crusading context (c.1095-c.1291). This question taps into discussions surrounding the nature of interfaith contact in the Middle Ages, and will add to the so-called ‘Clash of Civilisations’ debate.

Recent Publications

2022

‘Digesting Cannibalism: Revisiting Representations of Man-Eating Crusaders in Sources for the First Crusade’, in Chronicle, Crusade and the Latin East: Essays in Honour of Susan. B. Edgington, eds. T.W. Smith & A.D. Buck (Brepols, in press).

‘Hagia Irene’, in Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, eds. A. Holt (ABC-Clio, in press).

‘Religious Architecture in the Crusader States’, in Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, eds. A. Holt (ABC-Clio, in press).

‘The Church and Prostitution’, in Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, eds. A. Holt (ABC-Clio, in press).

2021

‘Networks of Crusading: An Introductory Overview of Digital Resources for Research into People, Place and Space’, Medieval People, 1 (2021, in press).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
England, Mediterranean, Middle East, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval
Expertise by Topic
Diplomacy, Literary History, Military, Religion