Norman Housley is Professor of History at the University of Leicester. Educated at the University of Cambridge, Housley was a research student of Jonathan Riley-Smith. He was research fellow in history at Girton College in 1979 and came to the University of Leicester in 1983. Housley is a respected authority on the history of the crusading movement and has written many books on the subject. He is one of the most important historians in the study of the later crusades. Suggesting that crusading history in the future should concentrate, not on the beginning and end of single crusades but on the... dynamics and fluctuations of the crusading movement as such. His books encompass largely the period 1200–1580, but more recently the scope of Housley's work has focused on the 15th and early 16th centuries.
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