Details of Dr Helen Nicholson’s
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Books

Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: images of the military orders, 1128–1291

Contents Introduction A chronological summary of attitudes towards the military orders, 1128–1291 The rulers of Catholic Christendom and the military orders The views of the clergy The views of the laity The representations of the military orders in literary sources and legend The military orders’ self-perception and presentation The implication of the military orders in the loss of Acre, May 1291 Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography and Index.

Published by Leicester University Press ISBN 0 7185 1411 4 – hardback (1993) ISBN 0 7185 2277 X – softback (1995) Out of print

Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi

A translation of ‘The itinerary of the pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard’. This chronicle is the most comprehensive and complete account of the Third Crusade, covering virtually all the events of the crusade in roughly chronological order, and adding priceless details such as descriptions of King Richard the Lionheart’s personal appearance, shipping, French fashions and discussion of the international conventions of war. Contents Introduction Prologue Books 1 – 6 Bibliography and Index.

Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd ISBN 1 85928 154 0 – hardback (1997) ISBN 0 7546 0581 7 – softback (2001)

Love, War and the Grail

ISBN 9 00412 014 9 – hardback (2001)

This is a study of the appearances of the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights in the French, German and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. It examines their religious roles, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and examines the role of ‘Templars’ in the Grail romances. It traces how these roles developed over time and considers what function the appearances of these military religious orders performed in the composition of a work of fictional literature. The frequent appearances of the Military Orders in medieval fictional literature are of interest both to historians and to literary specialists. This is the first study to consider the subject in depth across the medieval period. Contents Introduction Monastic Roles Military Activity The Grail The Appearance of the Military Orders in Medieval Fictional Literature Servants of Christian Knights The Predominance of the Templars Some Conclusions Extensive Bibliography and Index.     Published by Brill Academic Publishing

ISBN 0 39104 218 1 – softback (2004)

The Knights Templar: A new history

ISBN 0 7509 2517 5 – hardback (2001)	Founded in the early twelfth century, the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon united the knightly and religious roles which were at the core of medieval society. In 1307 the Brothers of the Order were arrested and charged with denying Christ, spitting on the crucifix, indecency and idol worship. How did this respected religious Order, which had operated in the Holy Land and throughout Europe for over 200 years, meet such an undignified end? Contents Introduction: An Overview The Origins of the Order of the Temple The Latin East: Defenders of Holy Church Holy War in Spain and in Eastern Europe The Organisation and Government of the Order Religious Life Most trustworthy servants: in the service of European kings Commercial and Economic Activities The Trial of the Templars and its Aftermath Conclusion: the Templar Myth Notes, Further Reading and Index.   Published by Sutton Publishing
ISBN 0 7509 3839 0 – softback (2004)
ISBN 83 11 10082 9 – hardback (2005)	Also available as: Rycerze Templariusze Translated into Polish by Piotr Chojnacki With revised plates and captions. Książka autorstwa wybitnej znawczyni dziejów Zakonu Rycerzy Świątyni Salomona, popularnie zwanych templariuszami, napisana w oparciu o liczne zachowane źródła , w tym o te niedawno odkryte. Pozwala zrozumieć przyczyny haniebnego końca działającej przez ponad 200 lat w Europie oraz Ziemi Świętej, pod przykrywką walki o wiarę, potęgi militarnej i finansowej. Stanowi doskonałą lekturę dla wszystkich, którzy chcieliby poznać prawdziwą historię templariuszy. Published by Bellona, Warszawa
ISBN 84 8432 719 1 – hardback (2006)	And as: Los Templarios: Una nueva historia Translated into Spanish Cada año se publican nuevos libros sobre los templarios, con más fantasías que fundamentos históricos. Helen Nicholson, profesora de la Universidad de Cardiff y especialista en el estudio de la Orden del Templo de Salomón, pone a nuestro alcance, en un libro que es a la vez ameno y documentado, los últimos hallazgos de la investigación acerca de los templarios, sus orígenes, su evolución, su organización y vida interna, las riquezas que acumularon, el dramático proceso en que fueron injustamente condenados y los mitos sobre sus misterios y sus tesoros, que comenzaron a aparecer ya en su tiempo. Con lo que demuestra que la verdad histórica puede ser más fascinante que el mito. Published by Crítica, Barcelona

The Knights Hospitaller

Contents Preface The Origins of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem Holy War in the Latin East and on the European Frontiers, 1100–1300 The Hospitallers on Rhodes, 1306–1522 The Hospitallers’ organisation and religious life Relations with the rest of Christendom: the Hospitallers’ political and economic activities in Europe The Order of Malta, 1530–1798 Conclusion: the Order of St John from 1798 to the present day Notes, Further Reading and Index.

Published by Boydell & Brewer ISBN 0 85115 845 5 – hardback (2001) ISBN 1 84383 038 8 – softback (2003)

Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300–1500

	Contents Preface Chronology of the Main Events Introduction The Theory of Warfare Military Personnel Military Buildings Military Equipment The Practice of Land Warfare Naval Warfare Conclusion Notes, Further Reading and Index.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0 333 76330 0 – hardback (2004) ISBN 0 333 76331 9 – softback (2004)

The Crusades

Part of The Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World

Contents Preface Chronology Introduction: Definitions and Motivations Crusading Expeditions to the Holy Land, 1095–1291 Expeditions in the Iberian Peninsula The “Crusade” in North-Eastern Europe Crusades Against Heretics: the Albigensian Crusades and the Hussite Crusades Crusades Against the Ottoman Turks in the Balkans Conclusion: The Impact of Crusading on the History of Europe and its Neighbors Biographies Primary Documents in translation Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index

Published by Greenwood Publishing ISBN 0 313 32685 1 – hardback (2004) ISBN 0 313 06124 6 – electronic

Knight Templar 1120–1312

	Number 91 in the Osprey Warrior series Contents Introduction Chronology Recruitment and Admission Belief and Belonging Training Appearance and Equipment Living Conditions: On Campaign Experience of Battle Museums and Re-enactment Glossary Bibliography Colour Plate Commentaries Index
Published by Osprey Publishing ISBN 1 84176 670 4 – softback (2004)

also published as part of
God’s Warriors: Crusaders, Saracens and the battle for Jerusalem
with David Nicolle

	Part of the Osprey General Military series Contents Part One: Hattin 1187 Part Two: Rival Military Elites • Saracen Faris • Knights Templar Conclusion Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index
Published by Osprey Publishing ISBN 1 84176 943 6 – hardback (2005) ISBN 1 84603 143 5 – softback (2006)

Edited works

The Military Orders. Volume 2: Welfare and Warfare

This collection of thirty-three papers from the second international conference on the Military Orders, contributed by scholars from Europe, the Middle East and the United States, covers the whole period of the Military Orders’ existence. The diversity of the subject matter reflects the Military Orders’ wide-ranging activities, dealing with topics such as medieval hospital care, crusading in the Middle East, warfare in Lithuania, piracy in the Mediterranean, castles in Bohemia, the Reformation in Switzerland and seventeenth-century European diplomacy. Contents Introduction Part I – Welfare Part II – Warfare Part III – Life Within the Military Orders Part IV – Relations with the Outside World Bibliography and index.

Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0 86078 679 X – hardback (1998)

International Mobility in the Military Orders
Edited with Jochen Burgtorf

The military orders, particularly the Templars and Hospitallers, depended on intense East-West contacts and extensive geographical networks (from Spain to the Middle East, from Scotland to Northern Africa) for the exchange of personnel, resources and monies. To date there has been no comprehensive study of international contacts, networks and mobility within these orders.This book focuses on this important aspect of the history of the military orders, which is examined and developed in depth and breadth. Contents Preface Introduction Part I – General aspects and individual cases Part II – Regional Studies Conclusion Index.

Published in Europe by University of Wales Press ISBN 0 70831 907 6 and in America by University of Alabama Press ISBN 0 8173 1512 8 – hardback (2006)

The Crusades

Part of the Palgrave Advances series

Contents Chronology of the crusades, 1095–1798 Chronology of the main secondary texts Introduction: definition and scope Ideology and motivations in the first crusade – Jean Flori Crusading and canon law – James Muldoon Crusading warfare – John France The material culture of the crusades – Maria Georgopoulou Prosopography – Alan V. Murray Gender theory – Deborah Gerish Frontiers – Nora Berend Crusades and colonization in the Baltic – Sven Ekdahl National feeling and the legacy of the crusades – Jean Richard The crusaders’ perceptions of their opponents – Margaret Jubb Byzantine and modern Greek perceptions of the crusades – Eleni Sakellariou Muslim reactions to the crusades – Helen J. Nicholson Further Reading and Index.

Published by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 1 40391 236 X – hardback (2005) ISBN 1 40391 237 8 – softback (2005)

The Military Orders and the Reformation:
Choices, State Building, and the Weight of Tradition
Edited with Johannes A. Mol and Klaus Militzer

A collection of thirteen papers of the Utrecht Coference, 30 September–2 October 2004.

Contents Introduction – Klaus Militzer Hochmeister Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach und Lundmeister Gotthard Kettler – Udo Arnold Poland in the face of the Lutheranisation of Prussia – Janusz Małłek Der Deutsche Orden und die Reformation in Livland – Juhan Kreem The Dissolution of the Hospitaller houses in Scandinavia – Martin Berntson The English Knights Hospitaller and the Reformation – Gregory O'Malley Die Johanniter in Deutschland und die Reformation – Karl Borchardt Vorgeschichte und Anfänge der Reformation in der Ballei Brandenburg des Johanniterordens – Jürgen Sarnowsky Daß der Teutsch Orden noch nit erloschen ... Strukturelle Wandlungen des Deutschen Ordens im Reich im Gefolge der Reformation – Jörg Seiler Trying to Survive. The Military Orders in Utrecht, 1580–1620 – Johannes A. Mol The Art Treasures of the Haarlem Convent of St John – Truus van Bueren Faithful to Tradition. The Function of the Portrait Series of the Land Commanders of the Teutonic Order, Utrecht Bailiwick – Daantje Meuwissen Wegen der 'Erhaltung der Katholischen Religion' oder andere Interessen? – Jozef Mertens Grand Master Lascaris and the Catholic Reformation – David F. Allen Name Index.

Published by Uitgeverij Verloren BV ISBN 90 6550 913 5 – softback (2006)

Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages
Edited with Anthony Luttrell

This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

Contents Introduction: a Survey of Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages – Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson Women and the Military Orders in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries – Alan Forey Men and Women of the Hospitaller, Templar and Teutonic Orders: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries – Francesco Tommasi The Sisters of the Order of Saint John at Mynchin Buckland – Myra Struckmeyer The Aragonese Hospitaller Monastery of Sigena: its Early Stages, 1188–c. 1210 – Luis García-Guijarro Ramos Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of Saint John at Aconbury, Herefordshire – Helen J. Nicholson The Hospitaller Sisters in Frisia – Johannes A. Mol Fleur de Beaulieu (d. 1347), Saint of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem – Paulette L’Hermite-Leclercq The Female Hospitallers of San Bevignate at Perugia: 1325–c. 1507 – Francesco Tommasi Index of names and places.

Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0 7546 0646 5 – hardback (2006)

The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell
Edited with Karl Borchardt and Nikolas Jaspert

	Contents Part 1: The Crusader Period Part 2: Rhodes and the Latin East Part 3: The Military-Religious Orders in the West Index
Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978 0 7546 6275 4 – hardback (2007)

The Knights Templar on Trial: The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308–1311

	Contents Introduction The Beginning of the Trial of the Templars The Arrests in the British Isles The Templars’ Land in Royal Hands The Interrogations in England The Trial in Scotland: Mixed Reactions The Trial in Ireland: ‘All the Templars are Guilty’ The End of the Trial in the British Isles Conclusion Appendices Index.
Published by The History Press. ISBN 978 0 7509 4681 0 – hardback (2009)

Papers

 

‘The Hospitallers and the “Peasants’ Revolt” of 1381 revisited’	The Military Orders, 3 (2008), ed. Victor Mallia-Milanes), pp. 225–33	Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants. & Burlington, VT, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6290-7
‘Crusades’	The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. ed. Bonnie G. Smith	Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, ISBN 978-0195148909
‘The Testimony of Brother Henry Danet and the Trial of the Templars in Ireland’	In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, Crusades Subsidia 1, ed. Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith, pp. 411–23	Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6140-5
‘Relations between Houses of the Order of the Temple in Britain and their Local Communities, as Indicated during the Trial of the Templars, 1307–12’	Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber, ed. Norman Housley, pp. 195–207	Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-5527-5
‘Crusades and Crusading Literature’	Medieval Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia, ed. Stephen Morillo), pp. 183–4	Routledge, New York, 2006, ISBN 0415969441
Articles on: the Eracles, Ernoul, Jerusalem, (Latin) kingdom of (with Alan V. Murray), St Maurice – order of, the Military Orders, the Third Crusade, Ralph de Diceto, Richard of Devizes and Rigord	The Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed. Alan V. Murray, 4 vols; vol. 2 pp. 405, 407–8, 662–72; vol. 3, pp. 808, 825–30; vol. 4, pp. 1002–3, 1035, 1038–9	ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif., 2006, ISBN 1-57607-862-0, e-book ISBN 1-57607-863-9
Translations of chapters 78, 79, 81 and 186, 187 of Jean Froissart, Chroniques. Dernière rédaction du premier livre. Édition du manuscrit de Rome, Reg. lat. 869, ed. George T. Diller (Geneva: Droz, 1972)	Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic World, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein, pp. 512–17	Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, 2006, ISBN 1-55111- 693-6
‘“La roine preude femme et bonne dame”: Queen Sybil of Jerusalem (1186–1190) in History and Legend, 1186–1300’	The Haskins Society Journal, 15 (2004), ed. Margaret C. Schaus with Susan Mosher Stuard and Thomas Izbicki	The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2006, ISBN 1-84383-198-8 ISSN 0963-4959
‘International Mobility versus the Needs of the Realm: The Templars and Hospitallers in the British Isles in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries’	International Mobility in the Military Orders (12th to 15th Centuries), ed. Jochen Burgtorf and Helen Nicholson	University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2006,  ISBN 0-7083-1907-6 and University of Alabama Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8173-1512-8
‘Saints Venerated in the Military Orders’	Selbstbild und Selbstverständnis der geistlichen Ritterorden, ed. Jürgen Sarnowsky and Roman Czaja, pp. 87–101	Ordines Militares: Colloquia Torunensia Historica XII, Torun, 2005
‘The Sisters’ House at Minwear, Pembrokeshire: analysis of the documentary and archaeological evidence’	Archaeologica Cambrensis, 151 (2002), 109–38	ISSN 0306-6924
‘Echoes of the Past and Present Crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin’	Romania: revue trimestrielle consacrée à l’étude des langues et des littératures romanes, 122 (2004), 320–40	ISSN 0035-8029
‘The Third Crusade: A Campaign of Europe’s Elite’	Crusades: The Illustrated History, ed. Thomas F. Madden, pp. 80–97, 152–3 (part)	Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 2004, ISBN 1-84483-040-3
‘The Motivations of the Hospitallers and Templars in their Involvement in the Fourth Crusade and its Aftermath’	Online publication at Hill Monastic Manuscript Library	Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Malta Study Center Lecture, 2003
‘The Hospitallers and the “Peasants’” Revolt of 1381 Revisited’	St John Historical Society Proceedings (2003), pp. 43–55.
‘Serving King and Crusade: The Military Orders in Royal Service in Ireland, 1220-1400’	The Experience of Crusading, vol. 1, Western Approaches, ed. Marcus Bull and Norman Housley, pp. 233–52.	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, ISBN 0521811686 (vol. 1) 0521826675 (2 vols)
‘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), 25–45.	ISSN 1591-7142
‘The Military Orders and their Relations with Women’	The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity, ed. Zsolt Hunyadi and József Laszlovsky, pp. 407–14.	Central European University, Budapest, 2001, ISBN 963-9241-42-3
‘The Head of St Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints’	Gendering the Crusades, ed. Susan Edgington and Sarah Lambert, pp. 108–20.	University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2001, ISBN 0-7083-1698-0
‘Women in Templar and Hospitaller Commanderies’	La Commanderie: Institution des ordres militaires dans l'Occident médiéval, ed. Anthony Luttrell and Léon Pressouyre, pp. 125–34.	Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-7355-0485-9
‘Following the Path of the Lionheart: The De Ortu Walwanii and the Itinerarium Peregrinorum at Gesta Regis Ricardi’	Medium Ævum, 69 (2000), 21–33.	ISSN 0025-8385
‘Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of St John at Aconbury, Herefordshire’	The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 50 (1999), 629–51.	ISSN 0022-0469
	Republished in: Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson	Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, ISBN: 0-7546-0646-5
‘The Knights Hospitaller on the Frontiers of the British Isles’	Mendicants, Military Orders and Regionalism in Medieval Europe, ed. Jürgen Sarnowsky, pp. 47–57	Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999, ISBN 1-84014-623-0
Short articles on ‘The Crusades’, ‘Georges Duby’, ‘Matthew Paris’, and ‘William of Tyre’	The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, ed. Kelly Boyd, 2 vols., pp. 268–9, 327–8, 906–7, 1301–2	Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 1999, ISBN 1-88496-433-8
‘Before William of Tyre: European Reports on the Military Orders’ Deeds in the East, 1150–1185’	The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare, ed. Helen Nicholson, pp. 111–18	Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998, ISBN 0-86078-679-X
‘The Military Orders and the kings of England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’	From Clermont to Jerusalem: the Crusades and Crusader Societies, 1095–1500, ed. Alan Murray, International Medieval Research, 3, pp. 203–18	Brepols, Turnholt, 1998, ISBN 2-503-50667-4
‘Women on the Third Crusade’	Journal of Medieval History, 23(4) (1997), 335–49	ISSN 0304-4181
‘Knights and Lovers: the Military Orders in the romantic literature of the thirteenth century’	The Military Orders: fighting for the faith and caring for the sick, ed. Malcolm Barber, pp. 340–5	Variorum, Aldershot, 1994, ISBN 0-86078-438-X
‘Saints or sinners? The Knights Templar in Medieval Europe’	History Today, 44(12) (1994), 30–36	ISSN 0018-2753 See History Today
	Republished in: Annual Editions Western Civilization, Volume 1, edn 13, ed. Robert L. Lembright (Aug 2004)	ISBN: 0072968796   See also Dushkin Online
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‘The Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the thirteenth century’	St John Historical Society Proceedings, 5 (1993), 25–41.
‘Steamy Syrian Scandals: Matthew Paris on the Templars and Hospitallers’	Medieval History, 2(2) (1992), 68–85	ISSN 0960-7752
‘Templar attitudes towards women’	Medieval History, 1(3) (1991), 74–80	ISSN 0960-7752
‘Jacquemart Giélée’s Renart le Nouvel: the image of the Military Orders on the eve of the loss of Acre’	Monastic Studies 1: the Continuity of Tradition, ed. Judith Loades, pp. 182–9	Bangor, Headstart History, 1990, ISBN 1-873041-00-4