Staff details

I completed my PhD in the School of History at the University of Leeds under the supervision of Professor Holger Afflerbach in 2010. From August 2011 I will be the Institute's main administrative point of contact, as Postgraduate Programmes Assistant.

Summary of research interests:
Late medieval ecclesiastical history, especially the history of the papacy and the mendicant orders; Political culture of the Avignon papacy.

Summary of research interests:
Late Middle English literature, especially Langland, Chaucer and Chaucer reception, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, also heritage management and education.

Current projects include:
The adaptation of Gawain and the Green Knight for museum education and outreach at the Royal Armouries Museum.

Also an editor for the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University & freelance proof-reader/copy-editor.

Summary of research interests:
Interactions among liturgy, music and theology; elementary music and grammar instruction to 1200; music and Latin palaeography; music theory to 1300; Hildegard of Bingen.

Publications include:
Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis, a performing edition of Hildegard of Bingen’s O frondens virga, articles on music and liturgy and a chapter on Liturgical Music in the Oxford History of Christian Worship.

Professor for Research in the Historic Environment

Summary of research interests:
Landscape, locality, ritual and cult from prehistory to the present; the archaeology of parish churches and monasticism; historical ecology. Outside the middle ages I have sustained interests in historical biography, architectural history and the archaeological study of buildings, military history and aviation, aerial reconnaissance as an historical tool, the cultural topography of the English midlands.

Other positions include:
NHMF Trustee and Member of the Committee of the North East, Heritage Lottery Fund
Chair, The Blackden Trust

Honorary positions:
Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of York
Archaeological Consultant, Beverley Minster

Recent (and forthcoming) publications include Journeys from Jarrow (2004 Jarrow Lecture, 2007), 'Breathing the future: The Antiquaries and Conservation of the Landscape, 1850-1950', in Susan Pierce (ed.), Visions of Antiquity. The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707-2007 (2007), 329-51; with Dominic Powlesland and Ian Wood, 'Deira and York in the 7th and 8th centuries', in Beatriz Arízaga Bolumburu & Jesús Angel Solórzano Telechea (eds.), La ciudad medieval y su influencia territorial (2007), 423-438; Voices from the Ground: Archaeology, Imagination, and the Making of History.

Past publications include Churches in the landscape (1989), The church in British archaeology (1983), The Anglo-Saxon Church (co-edited with Lawrence Butler).

Current projects include:
1. Pillars of Community: marking the landscape of England (with Catherine Karkov, David Stocker, and Ian Wood)
2. Building Ryedale
3. Life in 20th-century Britain: an aerial survey
4. Blackden: an acre of Cheshire (with Alan Garner and Mark Roberts)
5. Conflict in the pre-industrial landscape: an archaeological resource assessment for English Heritage

Summary of research interests:
The reception of the Middle Ages in the 18th and 19th Century; modern approaches to the Middle Ages, Heritage and Public History; study of the past by non-university experts (in the heritage industries, civic trusts, museums, libraries, archives); presentation of the past to different audiences (museum, film, television, historical fiction, everyday life), origins of firepower in Western Europe; Late medieval fields of conflict.

Current projects include:
Survey of Medieval Studies in the UK, the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth “Medieval Studies”, and a study on the public perception of the medieval period and the motivating factors which encourage individuals to pursue further study in the fields of Medieval Studies.

Member of Institute for Medieval Studies Management Group
Member of the Centre for Heritage Research, University of Leeds
Corresponding Member, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Universität Salzburg
Advisory Board Member, Forschungstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte, Katholische Universität Eichstätt (FOVOG)
Member of Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network (CARMEN)
Member of Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Member of International Arthurian Society
Member of Historical Association

Main Research Interests

•  The Frankish States and Settlement in Palestine and Syria, 1095-1291.

•  The Crusades to the Holy Land (especially warfare and logistics).

•  The Conquest and Christianisation of the Baltic Region (12th-14th Centuries).

•  Medieval Chronicles, Language and Communication (esp. issues of orality, vernacular, use of Bible).

•  Chivalry and Tournaments.

Research Supervision

Dr Murray currently supervises students working on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the Thirteenth Century, Production of Armour in the Later Middle Ages, and Recruitment of English Soldiers in the Hundred Years' War, but would be happy to supervise research in any of the areas listed above.

External Academic and Professional Activity

•  Editorial Board Member, Medieval Prosopography and Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean.

•  Invitations to speak at conferences, seminars and invited lectures, e.g. Budapest (2007), Aalborg (2007), Copenhagen (2007), Krems (2007), Tallinn (2008), St Louis (2009), Odense (2009), Birmingham (2010), Miami (2010), Reichenau (2010).

•  External examiner for research degrees at Southern Denmark University, University of St Andrews, Central European University.

•  Reviews in Crusades, English Historical Review, Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung, History, Journal of Baltic Studies, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Mediaevistik, Medieval Life, Medieval Prosopography, Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, Speculum, Times Higher Education, War in History.

Main Publications (Selection)

(1) The Frankish States and Settlement in Palestine and Syria, 1095-1291

The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099-1125 (Oxford: Prosopographica & Genealogica, 2000), viii + 280pp; ‘A Note on the Origin of Eustace Grenier', Bulletin of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East 6 (1986), 28-30; ‘The Origins of the Frankish Nobility of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100-1118', Mediterranean Historical Review 4 (1989), 281-300; ‘The Title of Godfrey of Bouillon as Ruler of Jerusalem', Collegium Medievale 3 (1990), 163-78; ‘Dynastic Continuity or Dynastic Change? The Accession of Baldwin II and the Nobility of the Kingdom of Jerusalem', Medieval Prosopography 13 (1992), 1-27; ‘Baldwin II and his Nobles: Baronial Factionalism and Dissent in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1118-1134', Nottingham Medieval Studies 38 (1994), 60-85; ‘Ethnic Identity in the Crusader States: The Frankish Race and the Settlement of Outremer', in Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages, ed. S. Forde, L. Johnson and A.V. Murray (Leeds: Leeds Studies in English, 1995), pp. 59-73; ‘A Little-Known Member of the Royal Family of Crusader Jerusalem in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum', Notes and Queries 241 (1996), 397-99; ‘How Norman was the Principality of Antioch? Prolegomena to a Study of the Origins of the Nobility of a Crusader State', in Family Trees and the Roots of Politics: The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1997), pp. 349-59; ‘Daimbert of Pisa, the Domus Godefridi and the Accession of Baldwin I of Jerusalem', in From Clermont to Jerusalem: The Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500, ed. A.V. Murray (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 81-102; ‘Mighty Against the Enemies of Christ: The Relic of the True Cross in the Armies of the Kingdom of Jerusalem', in The Crusades and Their Sources: Essays Presented to Bernard Hamilton , ed. John France and William G. Zajac (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 217-38; ‘The Prosopography and Onomastics of the Franks in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1187', in Onomastique et parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and Christian Settipani (Oxford: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000), pp. 283-94; ‘De Nederlanden en de Koninkrijk Jeruzalem in de vroege twaalfde eeuw: Politieke en dynastieke belangen', Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 113 (2000), 167-81; ‘William of Tyre and the Origin of the Turks: On the Sources of the Gesta Orientalium Principum', in Dei Gesta per Francos: Etudes sur les croisades dédiés à Jean Richard / Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard, ed. Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 217-29; ‘Kingship, Identity and Name-Giving in the Family of Baldwin of Bourcq', in Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar presented to Malcolm Barber, ed. Norman Housley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 27-38; ‘The Origin of Money-Fiefs in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem', in Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages, ed. John France (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 275-86; ‘Norman Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1131', in Archivio Normanno-Svevo 1 for 2008 (2009), 61-85; ‘The Demographics of Urban Space in Crusade-Period Jerusalem, 1099-1187', in Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009), pp. 205-23; ‘Construir Jerusalén como capital Cristiana: Topografía y población de la Ciudad Santa bajo el dominio franco en el siglo XII', in Construir la Ciudad en la Edad Media, ed. Beatriz Arízaga Bolumburu and Jesús Ángel Solórzano Telechea (Logroño, 2010), pp. 91-110.

(2) The Crusades to the Holy Land

(editor) The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, 4 vols (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006); ‘Questions of Nationality in the First Crusade', Medieval History 1 (1991), 61-73; ‘The Army of Godfrey of Bouillon, 1096-1099: Structure and Dynamics of a Contingent on the First Crusade', Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 70 (1992), 301-29. Reprinted in Medieval Warfare, 1000-1300, ed. John France (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006), pp. 423-52; ‘Coroscane : Homeland of the Saracens in the Chansons de Geste and the Historiography of the Crusades', in Aspects de l'épopée romane: Mentalité - idéologies - intertextualités , ed. Hans van Dijk and Willem Noomen (Groningen: Forsten, 1995), pp. 177-84; ‘The Chronicle of Zimmern as a Source for the First Crusade: The Evidence of MS Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.Don.580', in The First Crusade: Origins and Impact , ed. Jonathan Phillips (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), pp. 78-106; ‘Walther Duke of Teck: The Invention of a German Hero of the First Crusade', Medieval Prosopography 19 (1998), 35-54; ‘Hochmittelalterlich er Kreuzzug als frühneuzeitliche Adelslegitimation: Die schwäbisch-rheinländischen Teilnehmer des Ersten Kreuzzugs in der Chronik des Grafen Froben Christoph von Zimmern ', in Herrschaft und Legitimation: Hochmittelalterlicher Adel in Südwest­deutschland , ed. Sönke Lorenz and Stephan Molitor (Leinfelden-Echterdingen: DRW-Verlag, 2002), pp. 171-85; ‘Ein Herzog von Teck als Teilnehmer des Ersten Kreuzzugs? Ein Beitrag zur süddeutschen Geschichtsschreibung der Kreuzzugsbewegung?', in Schriftenreihe des Stadtarchivs Kirchheim unter Teck 28 (2002), 137-56; ‘Prosopography', in Palgrave Advances in the Crusades , ed. Helen J. Nicholson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 109-29; ‘Money and Logistics in the Armies of the First Crusade: Coinage, Bullion, Service and Supply, 1096-99', in Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades , ed. John Pryor (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 229-49; ‘Zum Transfer von Zahlungsmitteln bei Kreuzzugsexpeditionen: Überlegungen zur Logistik des Kreuzzuges Kaiser Friedrichs I. (1189-1190)', in Transfer: Innovationen in der Zeit der Kreuzzüge. Akten der 4. Landauer Staufertagung, 27.-29. Juni 2003, ed. Volker Herzner and Jürgen Krüger (Speyer: Verlag der Pfälzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 2007), pp. 25-37; ‘Barschaft und Beute: Komposition und Entstehung des “Barbarossa-Schatzes” im Umfeld des Dritten Kreuzzugs', in Vom Umgang mit Schätzen , ed. Elisabeth Vavra and Thomas Kühtreiber (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007), pp. 231-47; ‘Finance and Logistics of the Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa', in In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, ed. Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 357-67; ‘National Identity, Language and Conflict in the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1096-1192', in The Crusades and the Near East, ed. Conor Kostick (forthcoming 2010).

(3) The Conquest and Christianisation of the Baltic Region (12th-14th Centuries)

‘The Structure, Genre and Intended Audience of the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle', in Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier, 1150-1500 , ed. Alan V. Murray (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 235-51; ‘Eesti keel Henriku kroonikas: Suulisus ja suhtlus XIII sajandi Liivimaa misjonis', Keel ja Kirjandus 8-9 (2009), 559-72; ‘Music and Cultural Conflict in the Christianization of Livonia, 1190-1290', in The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier, ed. Alan V. Murray (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 293-305; ‘Henry the Interpreter: Language, Orality and Communication in the Thirteenth-Century Livonian Mission', in Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier: The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, ed. Carsten Selch Jensen, Linda Kaljundi and Marek Tamm (Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2010).

(4) Medieval Chronicles (see also previous section)

‘Voices of Flanders: Orality and Constructed Orality in the Chronicle of Galbert of Bruges', Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent n.s. 48 (1994), 103-19; ‘Deutsche Anführer beim Ersten Kreuzzug in der Geschichtsschreibung der Frühen Neuzeit. Zur Kreuzzugsdarstellung der Zimmerischen Chronik', Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 61 (2002), 145-57; ‘The Devil in Flanders: Galbert of Bruges and the Eschatology of Political Crisis', in Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders, ed. Jeff Rider and Alan V. Murray (Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 2009), pp. 183-99.

(5) Literature, Chivalry, Heraldry

‘Reinbot von Durne's Der heilige Georg as Crusading Literature', Forum for Modern Language Studies 22 (1986), 172-83; ‘ Ich clage din edel kunst daz si ist verdorbin : Did Walther Really Lament for the Death of Reinmar?', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 230 for 1993 (1994), 365-71; ‘The Arms of Emperor Otto IV: English Influence on German Heraldry', The Coat of Arms n.s. 11 (1995), 75-81; ‘Teaching Medieval Chivalry: Two Models of Knighthood in The World's Reward by Konrad von Würzburg', Bulletin of International Medieval Research 2-3 for 1996-97 (1997), 27-35; ‘Rumolt's Counsel and the Idea of Royal Responsibility in the Nibelungenlied and the Klage', Forum for Modern Language Studies 33 (1997), 142-55; ‘Der König und der Küchenmeister: Überlegungen zur Rolle Rumolts im Nibelungenlied', Nibelungenlied und Klage: Ursprung - Funktion - Bedeutung, ed. Dietz-Rüdiger Moser and Marianne Sammer (München: Institut für Bayerische Literaturgeschichte, 1998), pp. 395-410; ‘The Danish Monarchy and the Kingdom of Germany, 1197-1319: The Evidence of Middle High German Poetry', in Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350: Contact - Conflict - Coexistence, ed. Katherine Holman and Jon Adams (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 289-307.

Summary of research interests: to be completed shortly.

Summary of research interests:
History of technology and science in the premodern world; military technology; scientific instruments and museum collections; social history of warfare and military industrial production; Tudor fortification; 19th century iron production (US); technology transfer in the Industrial Revolution; military innovation in the 19th century (esp. the application of electricity to warfare and early torpedo development).

Publications include: Villard's Perpetuum Mobile, AVISTA Forum Journal 18.1/2 (2008): 24-30 and see http://sts.psu.edu/hti/villard.htm; “Armour and Arms in American Museums” in Robert D. Smith (ed.), ICOMAM 50: Papers on Arms and Military History 1957-2007 (2007), pp. 52-77; “C.T. Currelly and the Origins of the Arms & Armour Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum” Journal of the History of Collections 19.1 (2007): 89-114; “The Tower Gunners and the Artillery Company in the Artillery Garden before 1630,” Journal of the Ordnance Society 18 (2006): 53-66; “Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Scientific Military Gentleman,” in Walton (ed.), Instrumental in War (2005), pp. 17-46; “The Classification of Arms: Henry Percy's Ramist ideas of weaponry,” Journal of the Arms and Armour Society 18.1 (2004): 25-39; “The Bishopsgate Artillery Garden and the First English Ordnance School,” Journal of the Ordnance Society 15 (2003): 41-51.

Edited volumes: Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance (2006); Instrumental in War: Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the World (2005); De Re Metallica; Studies in Medieval Metals (2005) [with R Bork, C N de Vegvar, and S Montgomery].

Forthcoming: “State Building through Building for the State: domestic and foreign expertise in Tudor fortifications,” in Eric Ash (ed.), Expertise and the Early Modern State, Osiris 25 (2010); “Technologies of Pow(d)er: Military Mathematical Practitioners' Strategies and Self-Presentation,” in Lesley Cormack (ed.), Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming); “Founding A Foundry: Gouverneur Kemble's Diary of the Setting-Out of the West Point Foundry, June 6–July 1, 1817,” IA: Industrial Archaeology. Special Issue on the West Point Foundry, (forthcoming, 2010); Catalogue of the Scientific Instruments before 1914 in the Historical Collections of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich (2010); Jacopo Acontio's Lost Book of Fortification (2010?)

Past publications include “Theophrastus on Lyngurium – Medieval and Renaissance Lore from the Classical Lapidary Tradition,” Annals of Science 58.4 (2001): 357-79; Thomas Harriot's Ballistics and English Renaissance Warfare, Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar Occasional Paper no. 30 (Durham, 1999); “The Virtuousness of Technology: The Battle of Brunanburh and Anglo-Saxon Sword Manufacture,” Technology & Culture, 36.4 (1995): 987-99; and “Canadian Aesthetics of Early Reinforced Concrete,” IA: the Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology 21 (1995): 1-14.

Summary of research interests:
Codicology and tenth-century British and Scandinavian art history; medieval clothing production techniques; Asian medieval history.