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About Norman Housley
- Norman Housley is a professor of History at the University of Leicester. Educated at the University of Cambridge, Housley was a research student of Jonathan Riley-Smith.
- He was research fellow in history at Girton College in 1979 and came to the University of Leicester in 1983.
- He retired after a long and distinguished career in 2016. Housley is an authority on the history of the crusading movement and has written several books on the subject.
- His books encompass largely the period 1200–1580, but more recently the scope of Housley's work has focused on the 15th and early 16th centuries.
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