Sibylla of Jerusalem remains one of the most controversial figures of the Crusading era. Medieval chroniclers rarely...
Jayne Ellis
Jayne Ellis is a History graduate from the University of York with a deep fascination for ancient societies and the human experience that shaped them. Her writing reflects a keen eye for cultural nuance and a traveller’s instinct for perspective, often weaving lived experience with historical insight. Serious in her research yet unafraid to voice an opinion, Jayne approaches the past with curiosity, rigour, and the occasional sharp edge, because history, after all, was never neutral.
What We Know About the Struggle That Changed the Medieval East The Byzantine–Seljuk Wars were not a...
There are pirate names that drift quietly through history, and then there is Anne Bonny. Even now,...
The Crusader States were among the strangest political experiments of the medieval world. A scattering of Latin...
Fought on 28 July 1402 between the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I and the Central Asian conqueror Timur,...
The Man Behind the Templars Hugues de Payens helped create one of the most famous military orders...
The Battle of Cynoscephalae was one of those moments in military history where an entire way of...
The Knights Hospitaller are often treated as the quieter cousins of the Knights Templar. Less myth, fewer...
Amalric I of Jerusalem is one of those Crusader kings who often ends up standing in the...
The Knights Templar sit in that strange corner of medieval history where hard fact and outright fantasy...