This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together 22 essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages, and the history of the Crusades and the Latin East.
This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together 22 essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages, and the history of the Crusades and the Latin East.
These chapters develop and continue discussion that owes much to Nicholsons research contributions, which she has continued since retirement from her chair in Cardiff University in 2022. They are sorted into five parts reflecting a range of themes: everyday life of the Military Orders; women in their royal, crusading and Military Orders contexts; the Military Orders in England and their members; aspects of warfare in the Latin East and in Europe; and new findings about the history of crusading and the Military Orders that can be derived from the careful study of archives, records and manuscript sources.
The book will appeal to researchers and students interested in Medieval History, the Crusades, the Military Orders, and Womens History.
Introduction Part 1: Everyday Life of the Military Orders
1. Ad pauperes
recreandos: Food-alms and identity in the Military Orders of the Hospitallers
and the Templars
2. Ad Mensam: Production and consumption in English
Hospitaller houses
3. Hospitaller life on Rhodes after 1309 Part 2: Women
4.
Byzantine imperial women: sisters in the Macedonian Dynasty (8671056)
5.
The three wives of Baldwin I
6. Queen Melisende and Queen Sybil: queenship,
co-rule and conflict in the Kingdom of Heaven
7. Margaret of Jerusalem and
Beverley: piety and pragmatism during the Third Crusade
8. Military Orders
and women in medieval Italy Part 3: England and the Military Orders
9. The
Military Orders and the minority of King Henry III
10. An English proposal
for a crusade against the Irish, c. 13291331
11. A different kind of
Order: English magnates and their households in the fourteenth century
12.
The Hospitallers, lordship and the Peasants Revolt
13. The crimes of Oswald
Massingberd, an English Hospitaller on Malta Part 4: Warfare in the Latin
East and Europe
14. Does the Templar master Gerard of Ridefort deserve his
reputation as an arrogant fool?: A re-examination of the battle of Cresson
15. Renaud of Chātillon revisited: unheeded voices
16. The understanding of
holy war in the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in the post-Tannenberg
period: a little-known source Part 5: Archives, Records and Sources
17. An
appraisal of the Old French William of Tyre in British Library Henry Yates
Thompson ms. 12
18. Bonifacio di Calamandrana, Giovanni Villani and a
Cilician medical prescription
19. A nepotistic culture? Women and men around
Jacques de Molay: the last Templar grand masters social and familial
networks reconstructed
20. Templar letters of the late-thirteenth and
early-fourteenth centuries in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón
21. On the
fourteenth-century magistra of the Hospital in the Hospitaller commandery at
Würzburg in Franconia
22. The Teutonic Order and Anglo-Hanseatic diplomatic
negotiations during the reign of Henry IV of England (13991413): some
overlooked evidence from Canterbury Cathedral archives. Helen J. Nicholson
List of Publications
Peter Edbury is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University and has numerous publications on the history of the Crusades, Cyprus and the Latin East. He has re-edited the legal treatises by John of Ibelin (2003) and Philip of Novara (2009) and published a critical edition of the Chronique dErnoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre (2023; with Massimiliano Gaggero).
Paul Webster is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University, in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, and co-ordinator of the Exploring the Past Adult Learners Pathway. He has published on King John, on Thomas Becket, and a translation of the Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois dAngleterre of the Anonymous of Béthune (2021; with Janet Shirley).
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