# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-asbridge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:10:53.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-asbridge"
name: "Thomas Asbridge"
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description: "Thomas Scott Asbridge is a British historian at Queen Mary University of London, a position he has held since 1999. He is the author of The First Crusade: A New History (2004), a book which describes the background, events, and consequences of the First Crusade, as well as of The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land (2010), a volume providing a view on the crusading movement, portraying the ideas of justified violence and jihad."
tagline: "British historian (born 1969)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1969-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump