We would like to invite postgraduate students and early career researchers working in any field of Medieval Studies to submit abstracts of 350-500 words for papers on any aspect of the Crusades, but preference may be given to those articles looking at events from a Muslim perspective.

This follows on from the conference ‘Battle and Bloodshed: Representations of War in the Middle Ages’, which took place on 13th – 14th June 2009 at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield; the organisers intend to publish a collection of essays with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

We are looking to include a section on the Crusades and are in need of one extra paper.

Please submit these by October 14th 2009.

The final article should be 5-6,000 words in total including endnotes.

Abstracts can be sent to battleconference@sheffield.ac.uk or directly to l.bleach@sheffield.ac.uk.

Please include your name, institution and contact details.

For information, please see our website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/medieval-war-conference/
or contact one of the organisers: Lorna Bleach, Keira Borrill or Katariina Närä at the e-mail address above.