Simon Phillips
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
phillips.simon@ucy.ac.cy
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus
Biography
Undergraduate studies at the University of Reading (BA in History); postgraduate studies at the University of Southampton (MA in History & Archaeology, PhD in Medieval History). I was a Research Fellow at the University of Winchester until 2008 and since then has been a Research Associate of the University of Cyprus. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). I have also acted as an external examiner, both for the University of Malta (examiner of Masters dissertations) and the University of New Mexico (examiner of doctoral research), and in the Spring semester of 2013 I was a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta.
Research Interest
Late Medieval & Early Modern European History The Crusades and Military Orders, specifically: The Hospitallers on Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus The History of Islands Rhodes in the Final Hospitaller Years, 1502 – 1522
Publications
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‘Maligno spiritu ductus et sue professionis immemor: Conflicts within the Culture of the Hospitaller Order’ to be published in The Military Orders Volume 6: Culture and Conflict, ed. J. Schenk, Ashgate, Farnham (in press)
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‘The Shining Virgin, Sappers and Silent Night Assaults: Comparisons with the Precursors to the 1565 Siege’ in Besieged: Malta 1565, ed. Maroma Camilleri et al, Malta Libraries, August 2015, 107-116.
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Hospitallers Aegean Empire in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Contribution of Cyprus in the Struggle for Supremacy’ in The Struggle for Supremacy, ed. George Cassar et al, Sacra Militia Foundation, Malta, 2015.
