The Necessity of Permanent Criticism: A Postcolonial Critique of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol 32, 2016, pp5-21. Saracens Abroad: Imagining medieval Muslim Warriors on the Silver Screen. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 13, Number 2-3, 2007, pp 197-225.
Unbinding the Flesh That Remains: Crusader Martyrdom Then and Now. Harnassing the Potential in Historiography and Popular Culture When Teaching the Crusades. From Crusading Queen to Damsel in Distress: Re-Imagining Sibylla of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven. God’s War: A New History of the Crusades. The Super 70 Podcast is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, and my website at All music on The Super 70 Podcast is provided by Rozalind MacPhail whom you can find on. Listen to us argue about history, plot, and what the Leper King can tell us about the Second Gulf War. Dave Anderson returns to the Hacienda to go with me scene by scene through this problematic but engaging story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. While some can see the steady hand of a master filmmaker, others wondered why Scott had changed so much history with the effect of making a more racist and more sexist film. A bomb that was initially torn to shreds by critics and panned by the audience, Kingdom of Heaven’s Director’s Cut was released almost immediately with more mixed results. Ridley Scott was on a run when he handed down Kingdom of Heaven, a Crusader Epic that seemed ambitious and ballsy so soon after 9/11.
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