Dr. John Aspinwall

Dr John Aspinwall is a research associate in SFB subproject A04, ‘Jerusalem, the Distant Origin: Concepts of Home in Palestinian Orders of the Middle Ages’. He received his doctorate from Lancaster University with a dissertation on narratives of conquest in the central Mediterranean, focusing on southern Italy and Sicily under Norman rule. He has taught at the universities of Lancaster, Tübingen, Munich and Konstanz and was a research fellow at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich, the British School in Rome and the German Historical Institute in Rome. He has published in several peer-reviewed academic journals, including Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, Al-Masāq and Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, worked as a translator for the journal Transmediterranean History, is co-editor of the volume Patria Hierosolymitana: Conceptions of Heimat in the Ecclesiastical Institutions of the Middle Ages and is currently preparing his monograph for publication.

• Relations between the Crusader States and Europe
• Medieval religious orders and institutions
• Italy
• The Mediterranean region
• The Normans
• Text editing and manuscript research