What is Malcolm Barber?
'''Malcolm Charles Barber''' (born 4 March 1943) is a scholar of medieval history, described as the world's leading expert on the [[Knights Templar]]. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, ''The Trial of the Templars'' (1978) and ''The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple'' (1994).<ref>[[Sean Martin]], ''The Knights Templar'', p. 13</ref> He has been an editor for ''[[The Journal of Medieval History]]'' and written many articles on the Templars, the [[Cathars]], various elements of the [[Crusades]], and the reign of [[Philip IV of France]]. ==Biography== Born in 1943, Barber attended Walpole Grammar School in [[Ealing]] from 1954 to 1961, followed by the [[University of Nottingham]] from 1961 to 1966, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1964. He attended the [[British School at Rome]] from 1965 to 1966, and received his PhD in 1968 from the University of Nottingham. Barber was a Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the [[University of Reading]] in the UK, until his retirement in September 2004. ===Journal editor=== * (with P. Noble and J. Norton-Smith), ''Reading Medieval Studies'', 1977-1985 * ''Annual Bulletin of the Society for the Study of the Crusade and the Latin East'', 1986-90 * ''[[The Journal of Medieval History]]'', 1996-2002. ==Works== * ''The Trial of the Templars'', Cambridge University Press. 1st edition, 1978. 2nd edition, 2006 * ''The Two Cities. Medieval Europe 1050-1320''. Routledge. 1st edition, 1992. 2nd edition, 2004 * ''The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple''. Cambridge University Press, 1994 * ''Crusaders and Heretics, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries. Collected Studies''. Aldershot, 1995 * ''The Cathars. Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages''. Longman, 2000 ===Edited=== * ''The Military Orders. Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick''. Variorum, 1994 * (with K. Bate), ''The Templars'', Manchester University Press, 2002 * (with M. Ail