Denys Pringle

Reginald Denys Pringle (born 20 September 1951) is a British archaeologist and medievalist. He is best known for his numerous publications regarding Crusader castles and Crusader-era churches in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the 12th-13th century Crusader state in the Holy Land.

Education and career

Pringle received a Diploma in Elementary Italian at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia in 1970, then studied Archaeology and History at the University of Southampton (BA) from 1970 to 1973. He later had his DPhil in Archaeology at the Keble College, Oxford,{{cite web |url=http://www.crusaderstudies.org.uk/resources/historians/profiles/pringle/index.html |title=Professor Denys Pringle |website=Crusader Studies |date=25 June 2024 }} where he received his doctorate in 1978 with a dissertation on "Sixth-century fortifications in Byzantine Africa".{{cite web |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:16c6f24d-74ad-41f8-8015-c5e9e968ccbc/download_file?safe_filename=602344728.pdf&file_format=application%2Fpdf&type_of_work=Thesis |title=Sixth-century fortifications in Byzantine Africa |author=Reginald Denys Pringle |publisher=Oxford University |date=1978 }}

In 1977, he worked temporarily at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1979 to 1984, he was the Assistant-Director of the British School of Archeology in Jerusalem. In 1984–1985, he was a Fellow in Byzantine Studies and Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard University. From 1986 to 1999, he worked as Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments for the Historic Buildings and Monuments Directorate, Scotland. He then worked as a professor at Cardiff University from 2001 until 2013, when he retired.{{cite web |url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/152583-pringle-denys |title=Professor Denys Pringle |website=Cardiff University }}

Selected publications

{{cite book |last=Pringle |first=D. |author-link=Denys Pringle |display-authors= et al. |title= The Red Tower (al-Burj al-Ahmar): Settlement in the Plain of Sharon at the Time of the Crusaders and Mamluks A.D. 1099-1516 |year=1986 |isbn= 0950054267 |publisher=British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem |series= Monograph series 1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tqFtAAAAMAAJ}} (See Burgata).
{{cite book|title= Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an archaeological Gazetter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC|first1=D.|last1=Pringle|author-link=Denys Pringle |year=1997|isbn=0521-46010-7|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
Pringle, D. (2000). Fortification and Settlement in Crusader Palestine, Aldershot.
Pringle, D. with R.P. Harper (2000). Belmont Castle: The Excavation of a Crusader Stronghold in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Council for British Research in the Levant.[https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH002115092/NLI National Library of Israel catalogue entry]
{{cite book|title= The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem)| volume =I |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BgQ6AAAAIAAJ|first =D.|last =Pringle|author-link=Denys Pringle |year=1993|isbn=0-521-39036-2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
{{cite book|title= The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: L-Z (exluding Tyre)| volume =II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Y0tA0xLzwEC|first=D.|last=Pringle|author-link=Denys Pringle |year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-39037-0}}
{{cite book|title= The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: The city of Jerusalem | volume =III |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0jH6VPi4-gC|first=D.|last=Pringle|author-link=Denys Pringle|year=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-39038-5}}
{{cite book

|first=D.|last=Pringle|author-link=Denys Pringle

|title= The Cities of Acre and Tyre with Addenda and Corrigenda to Volumes 1-3

| volume =IV

|url= https://www.cambridge.org/no/universitypress/subjects/history/european-history-1000-1450/churches-crusader-kingdom-jerusalem-corpus-volume-4

|year=2009

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|isbn=9780521851480}}

Awards

2003: Prix Gustave Schlumberger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.{{cite web |url=https://www.aibl.fr/seances-et-manifestations/coupoles-312/coupole-2003/article/2003-255?lang=fr |title=Palmarès 2003 |website=Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |language=fr }}