Crusading Encounters, 10th International Conference, the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Royal Holloway, University of London, June 29–July 3, 2020

The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East is pleased to announce its 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters, at Royal Holloway, University of London, 29 June – 3 July 2020.

Proposals for sessions of three 20-minute papers each on the theme ‘Crusading Encounters’, or for individual papers, are welcome. Themes could include, but are not limited to:

• Interactions (real or imagined) between crusaders and indigenous peoples
• Crusading archaeology
• Impact of crusading on the environment or natural world
• Intellectual influences of crusading on medicine, science, culture, language/literature
• Intermarriage, travel and/or communication between peoples, borders, languages
• Encounters with the crusading past