Susan B. Edgington taught for 20 years in post-16 education while completing her PhD, an edition of Albert of Aachen's Historia Ierosolimitana which was published with an English translation in 2007. By then she was teaching at Queen Mary University of London and publishing articles on many aspects of the earlier crusades and the Latin East. The main focus of her research, which continues after she retired from teaching in 2019, is on Latin texts, which she aims to make accessible to new generations of historians.
Thomas W. Smith gained his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2013. Thomas was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2017 and Royal Asiatic Society in 2021 and holds honorary research fellowships at Royal Holloway and the University of Kent. A former Lecturer in Medieval History at Trinity College, Dublin, he has held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Leeds, a Leverhulme Study Abroad fellowship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and a Scouloudi Junior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. He currently teaches history at Rugby School, where he is Keeper of the Scholars and Head of Oxbridge. He has published widely on the crusading movement and ecclesiastical history in the Middle Ages.