Prof Peter Edbury
Education & Qualifications
1966-73 St Andrews University
MA – 1970 (1st class honour in Medieval History)
PhD – 1974 (thesis entitled ‘The Feudal Nobility of Cyprus, 1191-1400’)
Career Overview
1973-77 Research Lecturer, Christ Church Oxford
1977-present Member of staff in the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology (Lecturer 1977; Senior Lecturer 1991; Reader 1996; Personal Chair, 2000)
Teaching Profile
Together with my colleagues, Professor Denys Pringle and Dr Helen Nicholson, I have been running an MA course on the History of the Crusades. I also contribute to the MA in Medieval British Studies.
Awards & Prizes
- AHRC funding for a three-year project entitled ‘The Old French William of Tyre and its Continuation’. For further details click here
- British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for the academic year 1999-2000.
Membership & External Activity
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Chair of the Cardiff Branch of the Historical Association
Member of the editorial board of Ashgate Publishing’s series, Crusade Texts in Translation