Alan John Forey (born 1933) is reader emeritus in history at the

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and an authority on the history of the

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s of the

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. In 1994, his work was collected and published in the

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series as ''Military Orders and Crusades''.Military Orders and Crusades.
Routledge. Retrieved 4 December 2016.

Selected publications

*''The Templars of the "Corona de Aragón"''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1973. *"The Military Order of St Thomas of Acre", '' English Historical Review'', 92 (1977), pp. 481–503. *''The Military Orders from the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries''. Macmillan, 1991. (

New Studies in Medieval History New Studies in Medieval History was a series of undergraduate level books on medieval history published by Macmillan between 1973 and the mid-1990s. French and Italian history notably featured in the list of volumes with Chris Wickham's ''Early Med ...

) *''Military Orders and Crusades''. 1994. (Variorum Collected Studies) *"The Military Orders 1120-1312", in

Jonathan Riley-Smith Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Pro ...

(Ed.) ''The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades''.

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, Oxford, 2001.

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The Order of St Thomas of Acre by Dr. Alan Forey
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