Professor of History
As Professor of History at Berry College, Laurence W. Marvin teaches both halves of the Foundations world history surveys (History 154 and History 155), as well as upper division level European history courses before 1300 (History 307: Meet the Romans and History 311: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages).
Teaching Interests
As Professor of History at Berry College, Laurence W. Marvin teaches both halves of the Foundations world history surveys (History 154 and History 155), as well as upper division level European history courses before 1300 (History 307: Meet the Romans and History 311: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages). He also teaches History 347: Military History of the Western World, and the department’s senior capstone course, History 491: Historiography. He received the Mary S. and Samuel Poe Carden award from Berry College in 2010 for outstanding Teaching, Scholarship and Service.
Research Interests
Dr. Marvin specializes in the European Middle Ages, specifically the long twelfth century (AD 1095-1225). His 2008 book, The Occitan War, (Polish translation, 2017) discusses the Albigensian Crusade, a crusade conducted against the people of Southern France in the early thirteenth century. He has published a number of scholarly articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and magazine articles on various aspects of this crusade as well as other facets of Medieval military history. He recently completed a book manuscript on the military campaign of the Fifth Crusade (1217-1221). In 2021, The Journal of Military History published his article on the battle of Fariskur, fought during the Fifth Crusade.