Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of several books on aspects of medieval religious life, including The Monastic World: A 1200 Year History (2024); Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States (2020), with Bernard Hamilton; he has also co-edited four collections of essays, most recently A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage (2024), with William Purkis.