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Susan Edgington is an Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London's School of History. Her primary research focuses on the history of the Crusades, medieval and Renaissance medicine, and Latin texts. She has been affiliated with Queen Mary for over a decade after a prior career in further and adult education.
Her research interests span the historiography of the First Crusade, the reign of Baldwin I, Antioch’s intellectual legacy, and 'crusader medicine.' She has published extensively on primary sources in Latin, Old French, and Greek, including studies of medieval hospitals like the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem and the cultural influence of Antioch.
Key publications include analyses of medieval medical practices in crusader states, translations of crusade-era texts (e.g., Albert of Aachen’s Historia Ierosolimitana), and explorations of cross-cultural exchanges between Arabic and European medical traditions. Her work also addresses gender roles in medieval medicine, such as the study of Laurette de Saint-Valery, a potential female physician during the Fourth Crusade.
Edgington supervises doctoral research on the First Crusade and medieval hospitals. Her scholarship bridges historical analysis with textual criticism, emphasizing the importance of primary sources in understanding medieval dynamics. She has contributed to international conferences and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, such as the Chanson d’Antioche translation.
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