Christopher J. Tyerman FRHistS[1] (born 22 May 1953) is a British academic and historian focusing on the Crusades.
Tyerman was an undergraduate at New College, Oxford, and was awarded a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974; he lectured at the University of York between 1976 and 1977, before returning to the University of Oxford as a research fellow at Queen's College (1977–82); in 1981, he was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree and won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize Medal.
All the while, he had been a medieval history lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford since 1979, and in 2006 was elected one of its fellows.
[2] In 2015, he was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of History of the Crusades by the university.
[3] Tyerman's research interests lie in crusading in medieval western Europe, which he has explored from cultural, social, religious and political angles.