Adrian J. Boas is professor emeritus of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Haifa. He has excavated extensively, including a major project at Montfort Castle in northern Israel, and is the author and editor of numerous publications and several books on Crusader period archaeology and history. He is the former president of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East.

Elizabeth Lapina is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the US. Her main interest is the perceptions and representations of the crusading movement in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She has published a series of articles and edited volumes. Her most recent monograph, Depicting the Holy War: Crusader Imagery in Programs of Mural Paintings in France and England in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (2025), focuses on sacralization of warfare as reflected in visual sources in Western Europe.

Nicholas Morton is an Associate Professor in History at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. He has written extensively on topics connected to the history of the Medieval Middle East and his recent books include: The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East (2022) and The Crusader States & Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 (2020). He also co-edits three Routledge book series: "Rulers of the Latin East", "The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources and Memory", and "Global Histories before Globalisation."