Dr Helen Nicholson - Publications

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Books

  1. (edited) On the Margins of Crusading: The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011; ISBN 978-1-4094-3217-3), xiv + 209pp.
  2. The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011, vol. 1: ISBN 9781409436508; vol. 2: 9781409436522; both volumes ISBN 9780754653943), vol. 1, The Latin Edition: xl + 432pp., vol. 2, The Translation: lx + 653pp.
  3. (edited with Jochen Burgtorf and Paul F. Crawford) The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314) (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010; ISBN 978-0-7546-6570-0), 399pp.
  4. The Knights Templar on Trial: The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308-1311 (Stroud: The History Press, 2009; ISBN 978-0-7509-4681-0), 256pp.
  5. (edited with Karl Borchardt and Nikolas Jaspert) The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell (Aldershot, Hants. & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007; ISBN 978-0-7546-6275-4), 321pp.
  6. (edited with Anthony Luttrell) Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages (Aldershot, Hants. & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006; ISBN 0-7546-0646-5), 280pp.
  7. (edited with Johannes A. Mol and Klaus Militzer) The Military Orders and the Reformation: Choices, State Building and the Weight of Tradition. Papers of the Utrecht Conference, 30 September-2 October 2004 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2006: ISBN 90-6550-913-5), 319pp.
  8. (edited with Jochen Burgtorf) International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ’s Business (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, ISBN 0-7083-1907-6, and Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, ISBN 0-8173-1512-8, 2006), xxii + 218 pp.
  9. (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.
  10. 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; pbk 2006: ISBN 1-84603-143-5), 224pp.
  11. The Crusades, Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004: ISBN 0-313-32685-1), 196pp. Reprinted by Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-87220-619-9
  12. 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.
  13. The Knights Hospitaller (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001: ISBN: 0-85115-845-5; pbk 2003: ISBN 1-84383-038-8), 200pp.
  14. 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. Translated into Polish by Piotr Chojnacki as Rycerze Templariusze (Warsaw: Bellona, 2005: ISBN 83-11-10082-9), with new pictures and captions, some of which are incorrect. Translated into Spanish as Los Templarios: Una nueva historia (Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2006: ISBN 84-8432-719-1), 424pp. Second edition: Helen Nicholson, A Brief History of the Knights Templar (London: Constable and Robinson, 2010: ISBN 978-1-84901-100-6), xvi + 351pp.
  15. 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 Boston, MA: Brill, 2004: ISBN 0-391-04218-1), xiv + 273 pp. History of Warfare, 4
  16. (edited) The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998; ISBN 0-86078-679-X), xxviii + 412 pp.
  17. Chronicle of the Third Crusade: a Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi with introduction and notes (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997; ISBN 1-85928-154-0; pbk 2000: ISBN 0-7546-0581-7), 409 pp. Extensive extracts in An Eyewitness History of the Crusades: The Third Crusade, 1188-1192, edited and introduced by Christopher Tyerman (London: Folio Society, 2004)
  18. 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. ‘Myths and Reality: The Crusades and the Latin East as Presented during the Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308–1311’, in (edited) On the Margins of Crusading: The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011; ISBN 978-1-4094-3217-3), pp. 89–99
  2. ‘Epic Literature’, ‘Pisan, Christine de (1363–ca 1434)’, ‘Military Religious Orders’, in The Encyclopedia of War, ed. Gordon Martel, 5 vols (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011; ISBN 978-1-4051-9037-4, online edn ISBN 978-1-4443-3604-7), pp. 670–7, 1392–6, 1704–6
  3. ‘The role of women in the Military Orders’, in Militiae Christi: Handelingen van de Vereniging voor de Studie over de Tempeliers en de Hospitaalridders vzw, Jaargang 1 (2010), 210–19
  4. ‘Have the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller had a positive impact on Wales?’, in The Western Mail, 24 March 2011, also available online
  5. ‘Itinerarium peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi (Journey of the crusaders and deeds of King Richard)’, in Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. Graeme Dunphy (Leiden: Brill, 2010; ISBN 978-09-04-184640), vol. 1, pp. 890–91
  6. ‘Crusades’, ‘Hospitallers’, ‘Military Orders’, ‘Teutonic Knights’, in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0-521-82096-7), pp. 289–90, 567, 807, 1216
  7. ‘Water in Medieval Warfare’, in A History of Water, series 2, vol. 3: Water, Geopolitics and the New World Order, ed. Terje Tvedt, Graham P. Chapman, Roar Hagen (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010; ISBN 9781848853515), pp. 138–55
  8. ‘At the Heart of Medieval London: the New Temple in the Middle Ages’, in The Temple Church in London: History, Architecture, Art, ed. Robin Griffith-Jones and David Park (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010; ISBN 978-1-84383-498-4), pp. 1-18
  9. ‘The Trial of the Templars in Ireland’, in The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314), ed. Jochen Burgtorf, Paul F. Crawford and Helen J. Nicholson (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010; ISBN 978-0-7546-6570-0), pp. 225-35
  10. ‘The changing face of the Templars: current trends in historiography’, History Compass, 8/7 (2010), 653-67. This article is available online for members of Cardiff University and other subscribers
  11. ‘Military Saints’, ‘Knighthood and Knights’, ‘military theory’, ‘Noncombatants in armies’ and ‘Military Plans’ in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, ed. Clifford Rogers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 9780195334036), vol. 2, pp. 468-70; vol. 3, pp. 65-6, 128-9, 211-12, 351-2. I was also one of the associate editors of these volumes.
  12. ‘Aimery de Saint-Maur’ (p. 52); ‘amour courtois’ (pp. 88-9); ‘Brian le Jay’ (p. 176); ‘chasteté’ (p. 216); ‘Clontarf’ (p. 239); ‘critiques’ (pp. 273-6); ‘Dinsley’ (p. 300); ‘Eagle’ (p. 313); ‘enfant’ (p. 325); ‘femme’ (pp. 352-5); ‘Garway’ (p. 382); ‘Gautier Map’ (pp. 383-4); ‘Geoffroy le Templier’ (pp. 384-5); ‘Graal’ (p. 597); ‘Henri II, roi d’Angleterre’ (pp. 424-5); ‘Henri III, roi d’Angleterre’ (p. 425); ‘Henri VIII, roi d’Angleterre’ (p. 425); ‘Henri Danet’ (p. 428); ‘Irlande’ (pp. 472-3); ‘mariage’ (pp. 584-5); ‘Matthieu Paris’ (pp. 594-5); ‘Oste de Saint-Omer’ (pp. 672-3); ‘Pays de Galles’ (pp. 697-8); ‘Peter Holt’ (p. 711); ‘pouvoir princier’ (pp. 735-8); ‘representations’ (pp. 782-5); ‘Richard Coeur de Lion’ (p. 795); ‘sexe’ (pp. 870-1); ‘Slebech’ (p. 881); ‘sœur’ (p. 883); ‘Stephen de Fulbourn’ (p. 886); ‘Walter le Bachelor’ (pp. 971-2); ‘Ysbyty Ifan’ (p. 979), in Dictionnaire européen des ordres militaires au Moyen Âge, ed. Nicole Bériou and Philippe Josserand (Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris: 2009. ISBN 978-2-213-62720-5). I was also on the editorial committee for this volume.
  13. ‘The Templars on Trial: A very muted inquisition’, in BBC History Magazine, 10.6 (June 2009; ISSN 1469-8552), pp. 26-31. The associated podcast for June 2009, part 1, is available from the BBC History Magazine podcast archive at: http://www.bbchistorymagazine.com/podcast-page
  14. ‘The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles’, in Religiones militares: Contributi alla storia degli Ordini religioso-militari nel medioevo, ed. Anthony Luttrell and Francesco Tommasi (Citta di Castello (Perugia): selecta Editrice, 2008; ISBN 978-88-901124-2-5), pp. 131-54
  15. ‘The Hospitallers and the ‘Peasants’ Revolt’ of 1381 revisited’, in The Military Orders, vol. 3: History and Heritage, ed. Victor Mallia-Milanes (Aldershot, Hants. & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008; ISBN 978-0-7546-6290-7), pp. 225-33
  16. ‘Crusades’, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0195148909)
  17. ‘The Testimony of Brother Henry Danet and the Trial of the Templars in Ireland’, in In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, ed. Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades Subsidia 1 (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6140-5), pp. 411-23
  18. ‘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’, in Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber, ed. Norman Housley (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-5527-5), pp. 195-207
  19. ‘Crusades and Crusading Literature’, in Medieval Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: an Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret C. Schaus with Susan Mosher Stuard and Thomas Izbicki (New York: Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0415969441), pp. 183-4
  20. 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 in The Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed. Alan V. Murray, 4 vols (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006, ISBN 1-57607-862-0; e-book ISBN 1-57607-863-9), vol. 2 pp. 405, 407-8, 662-72; vol. 3, pp. 808, 825-30; vol. 4, pp. 1002-3, 1035, 1038-9
  21. 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), in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic World, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006, ISBN 1-55111- 693-6), pp. 512-17
  22. ‘La roine preude femme et bonne dame: Queen Sybil of Jerusalem (1186-1190) in History and Legend, 1186-1300’, in The Haskins Society Journal, 15 (2004: published 2006) (ISSN 0963-4959), 110-24
  23. ‘International Mobility versus the Needs of the Realm: The Templars and Hospitallers in the British Isles in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries’, in International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ’s Business, ed. Jochen Burgtorf and Helen Nicholson (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, ISBN 0-7083-1907-6, and Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, ISBN 0-8173-1512-8, 2006), pp. 87-101
  24. ‘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 (Toruń: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, 2005; ISSN 0867-2008), pp. 91-113; reprinted in Russian translation as ‘Pochitanie svyatykh v voenno-monasheskikh ordenakh’, in Clavis Medii Aevi, 2 (2007), 116-40
  25. ‘The Sisters’ House at Minwear, Pembrokeshire: Analysis of the Documentary and Archaeological Evidence’, Archaeologia Cambrensis, 151 (2002: published 2005) (ISSN 0306-6924), 109-138
  26. ‘Echoes of Past and Present Crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin’, Romania, 122 (2004) (ISSN 0035-8029), 320-40
  27. ‘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
  28. ‘The Crusades’ (text only) in The “Times” Medieval World, ed. Rosamund McKitterick (London: Harper Collins, 2003; ISBN 0007127103), pp. 146-7
  29. ‘The Hospitallers and the ‘Peasants’’ Revolt of 1381 Revisited’, St John Historical Society Proceedings (2001), 43-55
  30. ‘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
  31. ‘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
  32. ‘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
  33. ‘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 hbk 0-7083-1705-7, pbk 0-7083-1698-0; New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN hbk: 0-2311-2598-4, pbk: 0-2311-2599-2), pp. 108-20
  34. ‘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
  35. 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)
  36. ‘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
  37. ‘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. Reprinted with map, picture and a few small additions in Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Anthony Luttrell and Helen Nicholson (Aldershot, Hants. & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006; ISBN 0-7546-0646-5), pp. 153-77
  38. ‘The Knights Hospitaller on the Frontiers of the British Isles’, in Mendicants, Military Orders and Regionalism in Medieval Europe, ed. Jürgen Sarnowsky (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999, ISBN 1-84014-623-0), pp. 47-57
  39. 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
  40. ‘Knights of Christ? The Military Orders in the Eyes of their Contemporaries’, an article on ORB’s Military Orders page.
  41. ‘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
  42. ‘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
  43. ‘Women on the Third Crusade’, in Journal of Medieval History, 23(4) (1997) (ISSN 0304-4181), 335-49
  44. ‘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 and Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1994; ISBN 0-86078-438-X), pp. 340-5
  45. ‘Saints or sinners? The Knights Templar in Medieval Europe’, History Today, 44.12 (1994) (ISSN 0018-2753), 30-36. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Western Civilization, vol. 1: The Earliest Civilizations through the Reformation, ed. Robert L. Lembright, 13th and 14th edns (Dubuque: McGraw Hill, 2005-6, ISBNs 0–07–296879–6, 978-0073516233)
  46. ‘The Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the thirteenth century’, in St John Historical Society Proceedings, 5 (1993), 25-41
  47. ‘Steamy Syrian Scandals: Matthew Paris on the Templars and Hospitallers’, in Medieval History, 2.2 (1992) (ISSN 0960-0752), 68-85
  48. ‘Templar Attitudes towards Women’, in Medieval History, 1.3 (1991) (ISSN 0960- 0752), 74-80
  49. ‘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

Material on the World-Wide-Web

  1. Documents on medieval women and other aspects of medieval history
  2. Translations of texts relating to the Military Orders for the ‘On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies’ (ORB), on the ORB Military Orders page

Other

  1. Helen Nicholson was associate editor of the journal Crusades, ed. Benjamin Z. Kedar and Jonathan Riley-Smith, vols 1-3 (2002-4), ISSN 1476-5276. For queries relating to this journal, please contact Ashgate Publishing

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