Dr Lucas Villegas-Aristizábal
Dr Lucas Villegas-Aristizábal did his BA in history at the Richmond the American International University in London. Following his degree he did his MA and Ph.D. in mediaeval history at the University of Nottingham.
His PhD thesis focused on the participation of the Norman and Anglo-Norman nobility in the Iberian wars of reconquest due to the changing theological arguments for crusading. He has published papers in English and Spanish in a variety of international Journals. He has reading comprehension of Mediaeval Latin as well as many modern and medieval European languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and French. He has maintained an interest on the theological aura of the Crusades and the Reconquista in the minds of the participants and its transformation during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
He has five years teaching experience. In the School of History at the University of Nottingham, he co-taught first and second-year modules on the crusades and Mediaeval Europe. He has also given several guest lectures on the Crusades and the Normans at Richmond and at the University of Salamanca in Spain.
PhD Thesis:
‘Normans and Anglo-Norman Participation in the Iberian Reconquista’, PhD Thesis (Nottingham, 2007).
Publications:
‘Revisión de las crónicas de Ralph de Diceto y la Gesta regis Ricardi sobre la participación de la flota angevina durante la tercera cruzada en Portugal’, Studia historica. Historia medieval 27 (2009), pp. 153-70.
‘Anglo-Norman Involvement in the Conquest and Settlement of Tortosa, 1148-1180’, Crusades 8 (2009), pp. 63-129.
‘Roger of Tosny’s Adventures in the County of Barcelona’, Nottingham Medieval Studies 52 (2008), pp. 4-16.
‘Algunas notas sobre la participación de Rogelio de Tosny en la reconquista ibérica’, Estudios humanísticos 3 (2004), pp. 263-74.
Work in Progress:
‘The Failed Attempt to Conquer Lisbon c. 1142 as Described by the Historia gothorum and De expugnatione Lyxbonensi’, …
The Dutch Annals of Emon of Florudus Hortus and the Fifth Crusade in Iberia’, …
‘Did Salveric of Maleon Participate in the Failed Attempt on Caceres of Alfonso IX?’ …
‘The Decline of the Anglo-Norman Involvement in the Reconquista after the Second Crusade c. 1150-1248’,
He currently teaches:
HST 301 - History of London
Academic Editorial Experience:
Referee Editor of Studia historica: Historia medieval.
