Helen Nicholson
Helen J. Nicholson is an Emerita Professor in Medieval History and a world-leading scholar of the Military Religious Orders. She also researches the history of the Crusades, medieval women's history, and the use of 'fictional' sources as historical sources.
Address: School of History, Archaeology & Religion,
Cardiff University
John Percival Building, Colum Drive,
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales, U.K.
Address: School of History, Archaeology & Religion,
Cardiff University
John Percival Building, Colum Drive,
Cardiff CF10 3EU
Wales, U.K.
less
InterestsView All (32)
Uploads
Books by Helen Nicholson
Reflecting almost thirty years of published research, this collection includes articles focusing on women’s depiction in contemporary writing on the crusades and their involvement with the military religious orders, the Templars’ and Hospitallers’ relations with the rulers of Latin Christendom and with their noble patrons and their operations in Britain and Ireland.
Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture will interest scholars, students, and other researchers studying the military religious orders, the crusades and women’s lives in medieval Europe and the crusader states.
This is a duplicate entry added by Academia.edu
This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders, supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and as both defenders and aggressors. It argues that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at the impact of the crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims and other Christian groups.
This study traces Sybil’s life, from her childhood as the daughter of the heir to the throne of Jerusalem to her death in the crusading force outside the city of Acre. It sets her career alongside that of other European queens and noblewomen of the twelfth century who wielded or attempted to wield power and ask how far the eventual survival of the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1192 was due to Sybil’s leadership in 1187 and her determination never to give up.
This book pays homage to the work of a scholar who has substantially advanced knowledge and understanding of the medieval military-religious orders. Alan J. Forey has published over seventy meticulously researched articles on every aspect of the military-religious orders, two books on the Templars in the Corona de Aragón, and a wide-ranging survey of the military-religious orders from the twelfth to the early fourteenth centuries. His archival research has been especially significant in opening up the history of the military orders in the Iberian Peninsula. This volume comprises an appreciation of Forey’s work and a range of research that has been inspired by his scholarship or develops themes that run through his work. Articles reflect Forey’s detailed research into and analysis of primary sources, as well as his work on the military orders, the crusades, the eastern Mediterranean, and the trial of the Templars. Further papers move beyond the geographical and chronological bounds o...
All based on original research, the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts, ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of language and terminology in William of Tyre’s chronicle and its continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a foreword written by Peter Edbury’s PhD supervisor, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter’s own publications by Christopher Tyerman.
Reflecting almost thirty years of published research, this collection includes articles focusing on women’s depiction in contemporary writing on the crusades and their involvement with the military religious orders, the Templars’ and Hospitallers’ relations with the rulers of Latin Christendom and with their noble patrons and their operations in Britain and Ireland.
Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture will interest scholars, students, and other researchers studying the military religious orders, the crusades and women’s lives in medieval Europe and the crusader states.
This is a duplicate entry added by Academia.edu
This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders, supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and as both defenders and aggressors. It argues that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at the impact of the crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims and other Christian groups.
This study traces Sybil’s life, from her childhood as the daughter of the heir to the throne of Jerusalem to her death in the crusading force outside the city of Acre. It sets her career alongside that of other European queens and noblewomen of the twelfth century who wielded or attempted to wield power and ask how far the eventual survival of the kingdom of Jerusalem in 1192 was due to Sybil’s leadership in 1187 and her determination never to give up.
This book pays homage to the work of a scholar who has substantially advanced knowledge and understanding of the medieval military-religious orders. Alan J. Forey has published over seventy meticulously researched articles on every aspect of the military-religious orders, two books on the Templars in the Corona de Aragón, and a wide-ranging survey of the military-religious orders from the twelfth to the early fourteenth centuries. His archival research has been especially significant in opening up the history of the military orders in the Iberian Peninsula. This volume comprises an appreciation of Forey’s work and a range of research that has been inspired by his scholarship or develops themes that run through his work. Articles reflect Forey’s detailed research into and analysis of primary sources, as well as his work on the military orders, the crusades, the eastern Mediterranean, and the trial of the Templars. Further papers move beyond the geographical and chronological bounds o...
All based on original research, the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts, ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of language and terminology in William of Tyre’s chronicle and its continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a foreword written by Peter Edbury’s PhD supervisor, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter’s own publications by Christopher Tyerman.
This text presents a generally reliable but perplexing narrative, which omits some events mentioned by other contemporary commentators and includes some information which is only partial. This article focuses on five instances. Four are omissions: the coronation of Sybil and Guy in 1186 and Count Raymond III of Tripoli’s role in the fall of the kingdom, the Queen’s role in the defence of Ascalon, Balian of Ibelin’s role in the defence of Jerusalem, and the Templars’ and Hospitallers’ contribution to the defence of the crusader states against Saladin in 1187–89. The fourth instance is an allusion to greater positive contact between the Queen and Conrad of Montferrat, the Queen’s brother-in-law, than other sources admit, although on the other hand Muslim authors indicate that Conrad co-operated more fully with King Guy than IP 1 implies.
This article considers whether these omissions and silences were due to lack of information, or deliberate. If deliberate, the decision to omit or summarise certain events suggests that these events were significant to the conflicts and interests of the crusaders at Acre in the winter of 1190–91, before the arrival of Kings Philip and Richard in April and June 1191 respectively.
History Today, 73.6 (2023), 56-67
The chapter sets out to offer a wider context for the establishment of the Hospitallers’ house at Værne/Varna in Norway by considering the foundation of Templar and Hospitaller houses in Britain and Ireland and their connections to kings and aristocrats in the latter half of the twelfth century. These military religious orders arrived in Britain in the 1120s as the subject of royal and non-royal patronage, but did not reach Ireland until the 1170s. While the Templars seem to have relied on royalty for their initial acquisitions, the Hospitallers had a wider pool of patronage. That said, by the late twelfth century both orders were drawing on a wide pool of patronage in England, but in Wales, Ireland and Scotland their main acquisitions continued to come from prominent nobles and the Crown. I argue that the orders’ foundations depended not only on who was willing to donate but also whether the orders wanted to accept what was offered.
This article is available Open Access online at: https://apcz.umk.pl/OM/issue/view/2484
to historians of the Crusades for his work on the autobiography of 12th-century Syrian nobleman Usama ibn
Munqidh. In this new book, he presents a wide-ranging history of the Crusades, told through the writings of Islamic
contemporaries such as Usama, rather than those of western Christian contemporaries that are already so familiar to scholars of the Crusades. The Crusades, Cobb tells us, cannot explain modern struggles. Yet those struggles make this book particularly relevant to 21st-century readers. They will find here a fascinating account of relations between westerners and ‘Islamdom’ (as Cobb calls it) in the past, which aids
our understanding of modern struggles, even if it cannot explain them.