Malcolm Barber

Malcolm Charles Barber (born 4 March 1943) is a scholar of medieval history, described as the world's leading expert on the Knights Templar. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, The Trial of the Templars (1978) and The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (1994).Sean Martin, The Knights Templar, p. 13 He has been an editor for The Journal of Medieval History and written many articles on the Templars, the Cathars, various elements of the Crusades, and the reign of Philip IV of France.

Biography
Born in 1943, Barber attended Walpole Grammar School in Ealing from 1954 to 1961, followed by the University of Nottingham from 1961 to 1966, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1964. He attended the British School at Rome from 1965 to 1966, and received his PhD in 1968 from the University of Nottingham.

Barber was a Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Reading in the UK, until his retirement in September 2004.

Journal editor
 (with P. Noble and J. Norton-Smith), Reading Medieval Studies, 1977-1985
 Annual Bulletin of the Society for the Study of the Crusade and the Latin East, 1986-90
 The Journal of Medieval History, 1996-2002.

Works
 The Trial of the Templars, Cambridge University Press. 1st edition, 1978. 2nd edition, 2006
 The Two Cities. Medieval Europe 1050-1320. Routledge. 1st edition, 1992. 2nd edition, 2004
 The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple. Cambridge University Press, 1994
 Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries. Collected Studies. Aldershot, 1995
 The Cathars. Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages. Longman, 2000

Edited
 The Military Orders. Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick. Variorum, 1994
 (with K. Bate), The Templars, Manchester University Press, 2002
 (with M. Ailes), The History of the Holy War. Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, 2 volumes. The Boydell Press, 2003.

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Other websites
 Reading University biography
 Staff listing at Reading University
 Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies

Category:1943 births
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Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham