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Helen Nicholson
On her webpage, Dr. Nicholson describes her research interests as follows,
I am the author of Medieval Warfare (2003), The Knights Hospitaller (2001), The Knights
Templar: A New History (2001), and a number of books and articles on the Military Orders
and on the Crusades in the Middle Ages. In 1997 I published a translation of an early thirteenth-
century account of the Third Crusade: Chronicle of the Third Crusade: a translation of the
‘Itinerarium Peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi’, and I edited the proceedings of the second
international Clerkenwell conference on the Military Orders: The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare
and Warfare (1998). In 2003-2004 I held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research
Fellowship to publish the documents relating to the trial of the Templars in the British Isles, an
essential part of my ongoing research into the Knights Hospitaller in the British Isles. My wider
interests include the role of women in medieval religion and using ‘fictional’ literary sources as
historical sources.
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Dr. Nicholson's trustworthy online materials for the Society for the Study of the Crusades in the Latin East [SSCLE] and The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies [ORB], as well as other online publications, are among the most widely endorsed introductory material on the crusades available online.
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Dr. Nicholson's most recent book is God's Warriors: Crusaders, Saracens, and the Battle for Jerusalem, (Oxford: Osprey, 2005), co-authored with David Nicolle. On the publications page of her website, which is somewhat dated, she lists the following works,
Books
1. (edited, introduction and ch. 12) Palgrave Advances in the Crusades (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2005: ISBN hbk 1-4039-1236-X, pbk 1-4039-1237-8), xix + 308pp.
2. Knight Templar: 1120-1312, Warrior, 91 (Oxford: Osprey, 2004: ISBN: 1-84176-670-4), 64pp. Reprinted in God’s Warriors: Crusaders, Saracens and the Battle for Jerusalem, with David Nicolle (Oxford: Osprey, 2005: ISBN 1-84176-943-6), 224pp.
3. The Crusades, Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004: ISBN 0-313-32685-1), 196pp.
4. Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2003: ISBN hbk 0-333-76330-0, pbk 0-333-76331-9), 231pp.
5. The Knights Hospitaller (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001: ISBN: 0-85115-845-5; pbk 2003: ISBN 1-84383-038-8), 200pp.
6. The Knights Templar: A New History (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2001: ISBN 0-7509-2517-5; pbk 2004: ISBN 0-7509-3839-0), xviii + 278 pp.
7. Love, War and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance 1150-1500 (Leiden: Brill, 2000: ISBN 90-04-12014-9; pbk 2004: ISBN 0-391-04218-1), xiv + 273 pp. History of Warfare, 4.
8. (edited) The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; ISBN 0-86078-679-X), xxviii + 412 pp.
9. Chronicle of the Third Crusade: a Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi with introduction and notes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997; ISBN 1-85928-154-0; pbk 2000: ISBN 0-7546-0581-7), 409 pp.
10. Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128- 1291 (London: Leicester University Press, 1993; ISBN 0-7185-1411-4; pbk 1995: ISBN 0-7185-2277-X), xvi + 207 pp.
Articles
1. ‘Saints venerated in the Military Orders’, in Selbsbild und Selbstverständnis der geistlichen Ritterorden, ed. Roman Czaja and Jürgen Sarnowsky, Ordines Militares Colloquia Torunensia Historica XIII (Toru?: Uniwersytet Miko?aja Kopernika, 2005; ISSN 0867-2008), pp. 91-113
2. ‘The Sisters’ House at Minwear, Pembrokeshire: Analysis of the Documentary and Archaeological Evidence’, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 151 (2002: published 2005) (ISSN 0306-6924), 109-138.
3. ‘Echoes of Past and Present Crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin’, Romania, 122 (2004) (ISSN 0035-8029), 320-40.
4. ‘The Motivations of the Hospitallers and Templars in their Involvement in the Fourth Crusade and its Aftermath’ (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Malta Study Center Lecture, 2003) online publication at: http://www.hmml.org/centers/malta/publications/lecture3.html .
5. ‘The Crusades’ (text only) in The “Times” Medieval World, ed. Rosamund McKitterick (London: Harper Collins, 2003; ISBN 0007127103), pp. 146-7.
6. ‘The Hospitallers and the ‘Peasants’’ Revolt of 1381 Revisited’, St John Historical Society Proceedings (2001), 43-55.
7. ‘Serving King and Crusade: The Military Orders in Royal Service in Ireland, 1220-1400’, in The Experience of Crusading, vol. 1: Western Approaches, ed. Norman Housley and Marcus Bull (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; ISBN 0-521-81168-6), pp. 233-52.
8. ‘The Hospitallers in England, the Kings of England and Relations with Rhodes in the Fourteenth Century’, Sacra Militia: Rivista di Storia Degli Ordini Militari, 2 (2002) (ISSN 1591-7142), 25-45.
9. ‘Women in Templar and Hospitaller Commanderies’, in La Commanderie: Institution des ordres militaires dans l’Occident médiéval, ed. Anthony Luttrell and Léon Pressouyre (Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques: 2002; ISBN 2-7355-0485-9), pp. 125-34.
10. ‘The Head of St Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints’, in Gendering the Crusades, ed. Susan Edgington and Sarah Lambert (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001; ISBN 0-7083-1698-0), pp. 108-20.
11. ‘The Military Orders and their Relations with Women’, in The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity, ed. Zsolt Hunyadi and József Laszlovsky (Budapest: Central European University, 2001; ISBN 963-9241-42-3), pp. 407-14.
12. Articles on the Templars and the Hospital of St John in The Encyclopedia of Monasticism, ed. William M. Johnston (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000; ISBN 1579580904).
13. ‘Following the Path of the Lionheart: the De ortu Walwanii and the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi’, in Medium Ævum, 69.1 (2000) (ISSN 0025-8385), pp. 21-33.
14. ‘Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of St John at Aconbury, Herefordshire’, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50.4 (1999) (ISSN 0022-0469), 629-51.
15. ‘The Knights Hospitaller on the Frontiers of the British Isles’, in Mendicants, Military Orders and Regionalism in Medieval Europe, ed. Jürgen Sarnowsky (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999, ISBN 1-84014-623-0), pp. 47-57.
16. Short articles on ‘The Crusades’, ‘Georges Duby’, ‘Matthew Paris’, and ‘William of Tyre’ in The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, ed. Kelly Boyd, 2 vols (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999; ISBN 1-88496-433-8), pp. 268-9, 327-8, 906- 7, 1301-2.
17. ‘Knights of Christ? The Military Orders in the Eyes of their Contemporaries’, an article on ORB’s Military Orders page.
18. ‘Before William of Tyre: European Reports on the Military Orders’ Deeds in the East, 1150-1185’, in: (edited) The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998; ISBN 0-86078-679-X), pp. 111-18.
19. ‘The Military Orders and the Kings of England in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’, in From Clermont to Jerusalem: the Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095-1500, ed. Alan Murray, International Medieval Research, 3 (Turnholt: Brepols, 1998; ISBN 2-503-50667-4), pp. 203-18.
20. ‘Women on the Third Crusade’, in Journal of Medieval History, 23(4) (1997) (ISSN 0304-4181), 335-49.
21. ‘Knights and Lovers: the Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the Thirteenth Century’, in The Military Orders: fighting for the faith and caring for the sick, ed. Malcolm Barber (Aldershot: Variorum, 1994; ISBN 0-86078-438-X), pp. 340-5.
22. ‘Saints or sinners? The Knights Templar in Medieval Europe’, History Today , 44, 12 (1994) (ISSN 0018-2753), 30-36.
23. ‘The Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the thirteenth century’, in St John Historical Society Proceedings, 5 (1993), 25-41.
24. ‘Steamy Syrian Scandals: Matthew Paris on the Templars and Hospitallers’, in Medieval History, 2,2 (1992) (ISSN 0960-7752), 68-85.
25. ‘Templar Attitudes towards Women’, in Medieval History, 1,3 (1991) (ISSN 0960- 7752), 74-80.
26. ‘Jacquemart Giélée’s Renart le Nouvel: the image of the Military Orders on the eve of the loss of Acre’, in Monastic Studies 1: the Continuity of Tradition, ed. Judith Loades (Bangor: Headstart History, 1990; ISBN 1-873041-00-4), pp. 182-9.
Additional Online Articles by Helen Nicholson
Helen Nicholson The Motivations of the Hospitalliers and the Templars in their Involvment in the Fourth
Crusade and its Aftermath Malta Study Center Lecture, 2003
Helen Nicholson: Knights of Christ? The Templars, Hospitalliers and other Military Orders in the Eyes
of their Contemporaries, 1128-1291 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Helen J. Nicholson: Serious Violence: Church Justification for Violence in the Middle Ages. Paper based on
1998 Conference presentation.
David Nicolle- Crusades-Encyclopedia
Peter Edbury- Crusades-Encyclopedia
The Cardiff Centre for the Crusades- Cardiff University
Personal Webpage for Helen Nicholson- Cardiff University
Unofficial SSCLE Website by Helen Nicholson
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