Reginald Denys Pringle (born 20 September 1951) is a British archaeologist and medievalist.
He is best known for his numerous publications regarding Crusader castles and Crusader-era churches in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the 12th-13th century Crusader state in the Holy Land.
Pringle received a Diploma in Elementary Italian at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia in 1970, then studied Archaeology and History at the University of Southampton (BA) from 1970 to 1973.
He later had his DPhil in Archaeology at the Keble College, Oxford,[1] where he received his doctorate in 1978 with a dissertation on "Sixth-century fortifications in Byzantine Africa".
In 1984–1985, he was a Fellow in Byzantine Studies and Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard University.