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Malcolm Barber
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Born in 1943, Barber attended Walpole Grammar School in <a href="/facts/Ealing/MhhMjc6M">Ealing</a> from 1954–1961, followed by the <a href="/facts/University_of_Nottingham/PR8osn19">University of Nottingham</a> from 1961–1966, where he received his first-class degree in 1964.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> His post-grad studies were under Bernard Hamilton in the area of grandmasters of the Templars.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Barber attended the <a href="/facts/British_School_at_Rome/D9jj07sN">British School at Rome</a> from 1965–1966, then was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Reading in 1966.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> He received his PhD in 1968 from the University of Nottingham.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Barber was a Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Reading/nohWeG6A">University of Reading</a> in the UK, until his retirement in September 2004. </p> <h2 id="positions">Positions</h2> <ul><li>Director of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies at Reading, 1986–1989</li> <li>British Academy Research Readership, 1989–1991</li> <li>Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 1997–1998</li> <li>Senior Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 1998–1999</li></ul> <h3>Journal editor</h3> <ul><li>(with P. Noble and J. Norton-Smith), <i>Reading Medieval Studies</i>, 1977–1985</li> <li><i>Annual Bulletin of the Society for the Study of the Crusade and the Latin East</i>, 1986–1990</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Journal_of_Medieval_History/A7vBlBnj">The Journal of Medieval History</a></i>, 1996–2002</li></ul> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <ul><li><i>The Trial of the Templars</i>, Cambridge University Press. 1st edition, 1978. 2nd edition, 2006</li> <li><i>The Two Cities. Medieval Europe 1050-1320</i>. Routledge. 1st edition, 1992. 2nd edition, 2004</li> <li><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_New_Knighthood.html?id=B0h6zgEACAAJ">The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple</a></i>. Cambridge University Press, 1994</li> <li><i>Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries. Collected Studies</i>. Aldershot, 1995</li> <li><i>The Cathars. Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages</i>. Longman, 2000</li> <li><i><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Crusader_States.html?id=Bz_O7-Lb_CsC">The Crusader States</a></i>. Yale University Press, 2012</li></ul> <h3>Edited</h3> <ul><li><i>The Military Orders. Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick</i>. Variorum, 1994</li> <li>(with K. Bate), <i>The Templars</i>, Manchester University Press, 2002</li> <li>(with M. Ailes), <i>The History of the Holy War. Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte</i>, 2 volumes. The Boydell Press, 2003.</li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Curry, Anne (2007). "Malcolm Barber: An Appreciation". In Housley, Norman (ed.). <i>Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber</i>. Ashgate Publishing.</li> <li><a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lh/History/staff_dir/mcbweb.htm">Reading University biography</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lh/History/staff_dir/st_rsch.htm">Staff listing at Reading University</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/Acadepts/ln/Medieval/events.htm">Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Sean Martin, The Knights Templar, p. 13 <a href="/wiki/Sean_Martin_(writer_and_director)" target="_blank">/wiki/Sean_Martin_(writer_and_director)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Curry 2007, p. xi. - Curry, Anne (2007). "Malcolm Barber: An Appreciation". In Housley, Norman (ed.). Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber. Ashgate Publishing. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Curry 2007, p. xi. - Curry, Anne (2007). "Malcolm Barber: An Appreciation". In Housley, Norman (ed.). Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber. Ashgate Publishing. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Curry 2007, p. xi. - Curry, Anne (2007). "Malcolm Barber: An Appreciation". In Housley, Norman (ed.). Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber. Ashgate Publishing. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Curry 2007, p. xi. - Curry, Anne (2007). "Malcolm Barber: An Appreciation". In Housley, Norman (ed.). Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber. Ashgate Publishing. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>