Malcolm Barber 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). 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. This article is about the medieval military order. ... Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209. ... The Siege of Antioch, from a medieval miniature painting, during the First Crusade. ... Philip IV the Fair (French: Philippe IV le Bel) (1268 – November 29, 1314) was King of France from 1285 until his death. ...

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. The University of Reading is one of the older established UK universities. ...

Positions

• Director of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies at Reading, 1986-1989
• British Academy Research Readership, 1989-91
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 1997-8
• Senior Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 1998-9
• Editor, The Military Orders. Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick, 1994
• General editor, A History of Medieval Europe, Routledge
• Editor, The Journal of Medieval History

Works

• The Trial of the Templars (Cambridge, 1978)
• The Two Cities. Medieval Europe 1050-1320 (London, 1992)
• The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple (Cambridge, 1994)
• Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries. Collected Studies (Aldershot, 1995)
• The Cathars. Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages (London, 2000)

References

• Reading University biography
• Staff listing at Reading University
• Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies