Dr Katy Mortimer

Katy Mortimer is a Lecturer in Medieval and Modern History at Edge Hill University. She has taught at Canterbury Christ Church University and Royal Holloway, University of London, and received her PhD from the latter.

About the event

It has long-been known that crusaders and Muslims entered into peace talks with one another, and while some discussions were short-lived, others resulted in longer-term treaties. Despite this reality, the extent to which western Christians were interested in and comfortable with interfaith negotiations within a crusading context has been a point of scholarly debate.

This paper explores representations of crusader-Muslim negotiations in western medieval historical writing, looking in particular how certain episodes were told and contextualised within medieval Christian narratives of the crusading movement.