Military Orders and Crusades

Essays Presented to Helen J. Nicholson
Herausgeber: Edbury, Peter; Webster, Paul

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 719g
• ISBN-13: 9781032452906
• ISBN-10: 1032452900
• Artikelnr.: 73873511

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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