Military Orders and Crusades

This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together 22 essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages, and the history of the Crusades and the Latin East.

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Peter Edbury is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University and has numerous publications on the history of the crusades, Cyprus and the Latin East. He has re-edited the legal treatises by John of Ibelin (2003) and Philip of Novara (2009) and published a critical edition of the Chronique d'Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre (2023; with Massimiliano Gaggero).

Paul Webster is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University, in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, and co-ordinator of the Exploring the Past Adult Learners' Pathway. He has published on King John, on Thomas Becket, and a translation of the Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre of the Anonymous of Béthune (2021; with Janet Shirley).

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1: Everyday Life of the Military Orders 1. Ad pauperes recreandos: food-alms and identity in the Military Orders of the Hospitallers and the Templars 2. Ad Mensam: production and consumption in English Hospitaller houses 3. Hospitaller life on Rhodes after 1309 Part 2: Women 4. Byzantine imperial women: sisters in the 'Macedonian Dynasty' (867-1056) 5. The three wives of Baldwin I 6. Queen Melisende and Queen Sybil: queenship, co-rule and conflict in the Kingdom of Heaven 7. Margaret of Jerusalem and Beverley: piety and pragmatism during the Third Crusade 8. Military Orders and women in medieval Italy Part 3: England and the Military Orders 9. The Military Orders and the minority of King Henry III 10. An English proposal for a crusade against the Irish, c. 1329-1331 11. A different kind of 'Order': English magnates and their households in the fourteenth century 12. The Hospitallers, lordship and the Peasants' Revolt 13. The crimes of Oswald Massingberd, an English Hospitaller on Malta Part 4: Warfare in the Latin East and Europe 14. Does the Templar master Gerard of Ridefort deserve his reputation as an arrogant fool?: A re-examination of the battle of Cresson 15. Renaud of Châtillon revisited: unheeded voices 16. The understanding of holy war in the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in the post-Tannenberg period: a little-known source Part 5: Archives, Records and Sources 17. An appraisal of the Old French William of Tyre in British Library Henry Yates Thompson ms. 12 18. Bonifacio di Calamandrana, Giovanni Villani and a Cilician medical prescription 19. A nepotistic culture? Women and men around Jacques de Molay: the last Templar grand master's social and familial networks reconstructed 20. Templar letters of the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón 21. On the fourteenth-century magistra of the hospital in the Hospitaller commandery at Würzburg in Franconia 22. The Teutonic Order and Anglo-Hanseatic diplomatic negotiations during the reign of Henry IV of England (1399-1413): some overlooked evidence from Canterbury Cathedral archives. Helen J. Nicholson - List of Publications