Alain Demurger is a French historian, and a leading specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades.[1][2][3]
Alain Demurger is a honorary maître de conférences at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.[1] He specializes in the history of the Crusades, the history of the religious orders, and the state of France at the end of the Middle Ages.[1]
Demurger has been praised as the author of a good general survey on the Knights Templar, in Malcolm Barber's book The New Knighthood (p. 397): "There are good general surveys, by Marie-Louise Bulst-Theile, Sacrae Domus Militiae Templi Hierosolymitani Magistri (1974), and Alain Demurger, Vie et mort de l'ordre du Temple" (Life and Death of the Order of the Temple) (1985).[4]