James H. Kane is Lecturer in Medieval History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He teaches across the history of the premodern world, with a particular focus on the crusades and medieval religion, and his research centres around the ideology, terminology, and historiography of the crusading movement. His publications include The Conquest of the Holy Land by ¿alä al-Din, edited and translated with Keagan Brewer (2019), and Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100-c. 1300, edited with Andrew Buck and Stephen Spencer (2024).

Keagan J. Brewer, FRHistS, is Research Fellow at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His current research considers the place of atheism and unbelief in medieval European culture. He has previously written on the legend of Prester John, the emotion of wonder, and other aspects of Western European religion and culture in the Middle Ages. He enjoys editing and translating medieval texts. The current work is his third contribution to the Crusade Texts in Translation series.