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Jonathan Riley-Smith

British historian · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1938 to 2016 · aged 78

Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He has been described as "quite simply the leading historian of the crusades anywhere in the world".

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Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America2006
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John

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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1938 to 2016 · aged 78