Simon David Phillips is a research fellow in late medieval and early modern history at the University of Cyprus. His main research interests are on the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes, ecclesiastical history, and the history of islands. His publications include the monograph The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England and, with Emanuel Buttigieg, the collected volume Islands and Military Orders, c. 1291-c.1798. In 2013, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta in the Spring semester on the Hospitaller Studies Masters course. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.