Helen Nicholson (historian)

Helen Nicholson FRHistS FLSW is Professor of Medieval History and former Head of the History Department at Cardiff University. She is an world-leading expert on the military religious orders and the Crusades, including the history of the Templars.[1]

Nicholson studied for a BA in Ancient and Modern History at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.[2] Nicholson was awarded her PhD from the University of Leicester in 1990 following an Open Research Scholarship.[3] Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Images of the military orders, 1128–1291: Spiritual, secular, romantic". Her PhD was supervised by Norman Housley.[3] Nicholson taught at the University of Leicester before her appointment as Lecturer in the History Department at Cardiff University in 1994.[2]

Publications
  • Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128–1291 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993).
  • Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi with introduction and notes (Aldershot, Hants and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997).
  • (edited) The Military Orders, vol. 2: Welfare and Warfare (Aldershot, Hants, and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998).
  • The Knights Templar: A New History (Stroud: Sutton, 2001); 2nd edn: The Knights Templar: A Brief History of the Warrior Order (London: Constable & Robinson, 2010).
  • The Knights Hospitaller (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001).
  • Love, War, and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150–1500 (Leiden: Brill, 2001).
  • Medieval Warfare. Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003).
  • The Crusades, Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004) ISBN 0-313-32685-1.
  • (edited) Palgrave Advances in the Crusades (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
  • (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.
  • (edited with Jochen Burgtorf) International Mobility in the Military Orders (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Travelling on Christ’s Business (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006) ISBN 0-7083-1907-6.
  • (edited with Anthony Luttrell) Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages (Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006) ISBN 0-7546-0646-5.
  • (edited with Karl Borchardt and Nikolas Jaspert) The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell (Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007) ISBN 978-0-7546-6275-4.
  • The Knights Templar on Trial: The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308-1311 (Stroud: The History Press, 2009).
  • (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.
  • The Proceedings Against the Templars in the British Isles (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).
  • (edited) On the Margins of Crusading – The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World, Crusades Subsidia 4 (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011) ISBN 978-1-4094-3217-3.
  • (edited with Sarah Lambert) Languages of love and hate: conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2012).
  • (edited with Susan B. Edgington) Deeds done beyond the Sea: essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury, Crusades Subsidia 6 (Farnham, Surrey & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014) ISBN 978-14724178-31.
  • The Everyday Life of the Templars: The Knights Templar at Home (Stroud: Fonthill Media, 2017) ISBN 978-1-78155-373-2.
  • (edited with Karl Borchardt, Karoline Döring, and Philippe Josserand) The Templars and their Sources, Crusades Subsidia 10 (London: Routledge, 2017) ISBN 978-1-138-20190-3.

References
  1. "Interview with... Helen Nicholson". All About History. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 2019-05-30 – via pressreader.
  2. "Dr Helen J Nicholson". Resources for Studying the Crusades at Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  3. Nicholson, Helen J. (1989). Images of the military orders, 1128–1291: Spiritual, secular, romantic (PhD). University of Leicester.
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