Helen J. Nicholson


Helen J. Nicholson FRHistS FLSW is Emerita Professor of Medieval History and former Head of the History Department at Cardiff University. She is a world-leading expert on the military religious orders and the Crusades, including the history of the Templars.
Nicholson studied for a BA in Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford. Nicholson was awarded her PhD from the University of Leicester in 1990 following an Open Research Scholarship. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Images of the military orders, 1128–1291: Spiritual, secular, romantic". Her PhD was supervised by Norman Housley. Nicholson taught at the University of Leicester before her appointment as lecturer in the History Department at Cardiff University in 1994.

Publications

  • Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128–1291.
  • Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi with introduction and notes.
  • The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare.
  • The Knights Templar: A New History ; 2nd edn: The Knights Templar: A Brief History of the Warrior Order.
  • The Knights Hospitaller.
  • Love, War, and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150–1500.
  • Medieval Warfare. Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300–1500.
  • The Crusades, Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World .
  • Palgrave Advances in the Crusades.
  • The Military Orders and the Reformation: Choices, State Building and the Weight of Tradition. Papers of the Utrecht Conference, 30 September-2 October 2004 .
  • International Mobility in the Military Orders : Travelling on Christ's Business .
  • Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages .
  • The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell .
  • The Knights Templar on Trial: The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308–1311 .
  • The Debate on the Trial of the Templars .
  • The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles volume 1, volume 2 .
  • On the Margins of Crusading – The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World, Crusades Subsidia 4 .
  • Languages of love and hate: conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean.
  • Deeds done beyond the Sea: essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury, Crusades Subsidia 6 .
  • "La Damoisele del chastel": Women's Role in the Defence and Functioning of Castles in Medieval Writing from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries, in Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Levant. University of Wales Press, pp. 387–402.
  • The Everyday Life of the Templars: The Knights Templar at Home .
  • The Templars and their Sources, Crusades Subsidia 10 .
  • The Knights Templar ,
  • Sybil, Queen of Jerusalem, 1186–1190 ,.
  • Women and the Crusades ,
  • Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture ,