Adam M. Bishop holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (2011). His thesis was on the development of the legal system of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, and he has published research on the legal treatises of Jerusalem and Cyprus. In 2011-2012, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Nantes, working on the European Research Council project "Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world, 5th-15th Centuries." He is currently an independent scholar living in London, Ontario, Canada.