Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen Nicholson’s studies of the military religious orders and the crusades.
Spanning thirty-five years of scholarly research, the articles in this collection represent key research findings from Helen J. Nicholson’s studies of the military religious orders and the crusades. Ranging across subjects as diverse as the Templars’ religious practices, Arthurian romance inspired by the events of the Third Crusade, medieval European Christians’ views of Muslims, and a heresy investigation in Ireland, these articles reflect Nicholson’s research into the Templars and Hospitallers as religious institutions, medieval European fictional literature as an historical source, and the trial of the Templars.
Aimed at university students, scholars, and enthusiasts on the military orders, this volume makes this research available again to a new generation of readers.
Part 1: The Military Orders as Religious Orders
1. Evidence of the Templars religious practice from the records of the
Templars estates in Britain and Ireland in
1308. Communicating the Middle
Ages: Essays in Honour of Sophia Menache, ed. Iris Shagrir, Benjamin Z. Kedar
and Michel Balard, Crusades Subsidia 11 (2018), pp.
5063.
2. Charity and Hospitality in Military Orders (Templars and Hospitallers). As
Ordens Militares, Freires, Guerreiros, Cavaleiros. Actas do VI Encontro sobre
Ordens Militares, ed. Isabel Cristina Ferreira Fernandes (2012), vol. 1, pp.
193206.
3. Relations between Houses of the Order of the Temple in Britain and their
local communities, as indicated during the trial of the Templars,
130712.
Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights
Templar presented to Malcolm Barber, ed. Norman Housley (2007), pp.
195207.
4. How secret was the Templar admission ceremony? Evidence from the
proceedings in Britain and Ireland. Commilitones Christi: Miscellanea di
studi per il Centro Italiano di Documentazione sullOrdine del Tempio,
MMXIMMXVI, ed. Sergio Sammarco (2016), pp.
8598.
5. Martyrum collegio sociandus haberet: Depictions of the Military Orders
Martyrs in the Holy Land,
11871291. Crusading and Warfare in the Middle
Ages: Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France, ed.
Simon John and Nicholas Morton. Crusades Subsidia 7 (2014), pp.
101118.
6. Saints venerated in the Military Orders. Selbstbild und Selbstverständnis
der geistlichen Ritterorden, ed. Roman Czaja and Jürgen Sarnowsky, Ordines
Militares: Colloquia Torunensia Historica XIII (2005), pp.
91113.
7. The Head of St Euphemia: Templar devotion to female saints. Gendering the
Crusades, ed. Susan Edgington and Sarah Lambert (2002), pp.
108120.
8. St Ursula and the Military Religious Orders. The Cult of St Ursula and the
11,000 Virgins, ed. Jane Cartwright (2016), pp.
4159.
9. Memory and the Military Orders: an Overview. Entre Deus e o Rei: O Mundo
das Ordens Militares. Coleção Ordens Militares 8, ed. Isabel Cristina
Ferreira Fernandes (2018), vol. 1, pp.
1728.
Part 2: Questioning the Primary Sources
10. Before William of Tyre: European Reports on the Military Orders Deeds in
the East,
11501185. The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare, ed.
Helen J. Nicholson (1998), pp.
111118.
11. Steamy Syrian Scandals: Matthew Paris on the Templars and Hospitallers.
Medieval History, 2.2 (1992), pp.
6885.
12. 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 (1994), pp.
340345.
13. Following the Path of the Lionheart: the De ortu Walwanii and the
Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi. Medium Ævum, 69 (2000), pp.
2133.
14. Love in a Hot Climate: Gender Relations in Florent et Octavien. Languages
of Love and Hate: Conflict, Communication, and Identity in the Medieval
Mediterranean, ed. Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson (2012), pp.
2136.
15. Echoes of Past and Present Crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin. Romania,
122 (2004), pp.
320340.
16. The Hero Meets His Match: Cultural Encounters in Narratives of Wars
against Muslims. Cultural Encounters during the Crusades, ed. Kurt Villads
Jensen, Kirsi Salonen and Helle Vogt (2013), pp.
105118.
17. Jacquemart Giélées Renart le Nouvel: The Image of the Military Orders on
the Eve of the Loss of Acre (1291). Monastic Studies 1: the Continuity of
Tradition, ed. Judith Loades (1990), pp.
182189.
Part 3: The Trial of the Templars
18. Myths and Reality: the Crusades and the Latin East as presented during
the Trial of the Templars in the British Isles,
13081311. On the Margins of
Crusading The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World, ed.
Helen J. Nicholson, Crusades Subsidia 4 (2011), pp.
8999.
19. 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, ed. Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and
Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades Subsidia 1 (2008), pp.
411423.
20. The Trial of the Templars in Ireland. The Debate on the Trial of the
Templars (13071314), ed. Jochen Burgtorf, Paul F. Crawford and Helen J.
Nicholson (2010), pp. 225235.
Helen J. Nicholson is Emerita Professor of History at Cardiff University, Wales, U.K. She has published extensively on the Templars and Hospitallers, the crusades, medieval warfare, and various related subjects. Her books include The Knights Hospitaller (2001), The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles (2011), Sybil, Queen of Jerusalem, 11861190, in Routledges Rulers of the Latin East series (2022), Women and the Crusades (2023), and Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European Society and Culture (2024).
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