Colin Morris was one of the foremost medieval historians in the English-speaking world of his generation. His international reputation was founded upon three major works: The Discovery of the Individual, 1050–1200 (1972), The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (1989), and The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: From the Beginning to 1600 (2005), which were especially notable and original for their skilful interweaving of both a wide range of topics and a wide range of sources. These were supported by a number of major articles, which were increasingly, though not exclusively, focused both on the ideology and chronicling of the First Crusade, and also on the role the Holy Sepulchre played in the imagination of the medieval West.
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