Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 (with Dr. Kyle Lincoln)
Published: University of North Carolina Press, May 2021
Primary author of a student-led historical role-playing game based on the Fourth Crusade which is part of the Reacting to the Past series.The game has won multiple awards including the 2019 Lone Medievalist Award for Teaching and the 2021 Brilliancy Prize in Reacting
Grandsons of Genghis: The Mongol Qurultai of 1246 Student Gamebook and Instructor’s Manual
Sole author of a student-led historical role-playing game based on the history of the Mongols which is part of the Reacting to the Past series.
Manuscript was peer reviewed by the Editorial Board of the Reacting Consortium and approved for online publication to the consortium’s online library as a preparatory step for print publication.
Evian 1938: The First Solution Student Gamebook and Instructor’s Manual
Sole author of a student-led historical role-playing game focused on Evian Conference of 1938, which focused on the global response to the problem of Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany.
A Crisis of Faith: Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Search of Holiness in the Medieval World, Student Gamebook and Instructor’s Manual (with Drs. Kyle Lincoln and Robert Olsen)
Primary author of a student-led historical role-playing game based on the Fourth Crusade which is part of the Reacting to the Past series.

2020 “Diplomacy, Black Sea Trade and the Mission of Baldwin of Hainaut”
Chapter in an edited volume on lesser-known figures who travelled the Silk Road under Mongol Rule entitled: Along the Mongol Silk Roads: Merchants, Generals, Intellectuals. Ed. Michal Biran, et.al. (University of California Press, 2020)
2013 “The Crusader Rebranding of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount”
Uses medieval pilgrimage narratives to explore the Crusader appropriation of Jewish and Islamic traditions in their understanding of the Temple Mount.
Comitatus 44, pp. 77-94 (Autumn 2013)
2013 “The Mongol Invasions and the Aegean World (1241–1261)”
Reexamines the role of the Mongols in the restoration of Byzantium and provides new evidence for a Mongol invasion of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.
The Mediterranean Historical Review 28, pp. 129-139 (Dec. 2013)
This article was chosen by the journal’s editors as one of 30 key articles published in the journal’s last 30 years and republished in a special online edition in 2016.

2021 Show Don't Tell: Introducing Reacting to the Past through Faculty Learning Communities, for Chain Reactions – the official blog of the Reacting to the Past Consortium, Barnard College: https://reactingconsortium.org/Blog/11460331

2021 Contra Latinos et Adversus Graecos: The Separation Between Rome and Constantinople from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century Ed. Bucossi and Calia, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, June 2021
2017 Bullarium Hellenicum, Pope Honorius III's Letters to Frankish Greece and Constantinople by W. O. Duba and C. Schabel, The Medieval Review, February 27, 2017
2016 Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade by Elizabeth Lapina
The Medieval Review, August 20, 2016
2014 Crusade and Christendom, Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 11871291 by Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James Powell
Crit-Com, the Journal of the Council of European Studies, February 19, 2014

John Giebfried, PhD

ABOUT