Alan V. Murray FRHistS[clarification needed] is a Scottish historian and philologist specializing in the history of the Crusades, medieval warfare and tournaments, and Middle High German language and literature.
He worked as a Lektor at the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg[1] in 1980-1981 before returning to St Andrews to undertake a Ph.D. under Kennedy's supervision.
He plays fiddle, whistle, guitar and Northumbrian smallpipes and has won prizes for singing and piping at traditional music festivals at Rothbury (1980) and Newcastleton (1988).
[16] Murray's earliest research was on the composition of the First Crusade (1096–1099) and the early history of the Frankish principalities of Outremer, and was especially informed by prosopographical and pragmatic approaches.
He later became interested in the history of the Baltic region, and edited three collections of essays bringing together work by historians in Estonia, Latvia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the U.S.A., and Canada.