Helen J. Nicholson

Helen Jane Nicholson (* 1960 in Northern Ireland ) is a British medieval historian.

Nicholson went to school in Belfast and Oadby and studied at Oxford University (St. Hilda's College). In 1990 she received her PhD from the University of Leicester . Her dissertation on the medieval image of military orders of knights was published in 1993. She is a professor at the University of Cardiff .

Nicholson dealt with warfare in the Middle Ages, military orders such as the Templars (especially in Great Britain), the Knights of Malta and the Teutonic Order, as well as the Crusades.

In 2003/04 she was a scholarship holder of the British Academy and the Levenhulme Trust for the publication of the Templar trial files in Great Britain. In 2007 she co-organized a conference on the Templar Trials at the University of Western Michigan in Kalamazoo (International Congress on Medieval Studies) and at the University of Leeds (International Medieval Congress).

She is a member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, the Arthurian Society, and the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Fonts (selection)

• Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights. Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291. Leicester University Press, Leicester et al. 1993, ISBN 0-7185-1411-4 .
• Chronicle of the Third Crusade. A translation of the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi (= Crusade Texts in Translation. 3). Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 1997, ISBN 1-85928-154-0 .
• as editor: The Military Orders. Volume 2: Welfare and Warfare. (Papers from the Second Conference on the Military Orders, which was held on September 5-8, 1996 at the Museum of St. John, St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London). Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 1998, ISBN 0-86078-679-X .
• The Knights Hospitaller. Boydell Press, Woodbridge et al. 2001, ISBN 0-85115-845-5 .
• The Knights Templar. A New History. Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2517-5 .
• Love, War and the Grail. (Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150–1500) (= History of Warfare. 4). Brill, Leiden et al. 2001, ISBN 90-04-12014-9 .
• Knight Templar. 1120-1312. Osprey, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84176-670-4 .
• Medieval Warfare. Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2004, ISBN 0-333-76330-0 .
• with David Nicolle : God's Warriors. Crusaders, Saracens and the Battle for Jerusalem. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2005, ISBN 1-84176-943-6 .
• The Knights Templar on Trial. The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308-1311. The History Press, Stroud 2009, ISBN 978-0-7509-4681-0 .
• as editor and translator: The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles. 2 volumes. Ashgate, Farnham et al. 2011;
  • Volume 1: The Latin Edition. 2011, ISBN 978-1-409-43650-8 ;
  • Volume 2: The Translation. 2011, ISBN 978-1-409-43652-2 .

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