ADRIAN J BOAS

I was born in Melbourne, Australia. I received my Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996 and prior to retirement in 2019 was a lecturer in archaeology and history of the Crusader period at the University of Haifa, Israel.
 
I have excavated several urban and rural sites and castles in Israel and from 2006 directed the Montfort Castle Project. I formerly served as president of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE).
 
I have published several books on the archaeology of the Crusader period, including the award-winning Montfort. Early History and Recent Studies of the Principal Fortress of the Teutonic Order in the Latin East, Brill, 2017, winner of the 2017 Verbruggen Prize.

In 2023 I was honoured by the publication of a two-volume festschrift titled Exploring Outremer, Studies in honour of Adrian J. Boas, published in the Crusades Subsidia series, edited by Rabei G. Khamisy, Rafael Y. Lewis and Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel.











In 2021 I published my first novel, titled The Sulphur Priest, set in Montfort Castle and in two time periods - 1271 AD, during the siege and fall of the castle to the Mamluks and in 1926 during the Americal excavation of the castle.

In May 2025 I will publish my second novel, A Gentle Empire, set in the First World War, the story of a young colonial soldier's awakening from expectations of 'a Great Adventure' to the realities of the battlefield.