Professor Helen Nicholson
BA (Oxon.) MA, PhD FLSW FRHistS

Emeritus Professor

School of History, Archaeology and Religion

A former Head of Cardiff University History Department, I am a world-leading scholar in research into the Templars and Hospitallers and the Crusades. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Learned Society of Wales.

I retired from Cardiff University on 30 September 2022.

2024

Nicholson, H. 2024. The rule of the temple and the military-religious orders. In: Franke, D. P. and Hosler, J. D. eds. Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy. Routledge Handbooks London: Routledge, pp. 197-207.
Nicholson, H. 2024. Women, the Crusades, the Templars and Hospitallers in Medieval European society and culture. Variorum Collected Studies. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781003436171)
Nicholson, H. 2024. The silences of the itinerarium peregrinorum 1. In: Buck, A., Kane, J. H. and Spencer, S. J. eds. Crusade, Settlement, and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, c. 1100–c. 1300., Vol. 5. Crusading in Context Vol. 5. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, pp. 228-241.

2023

Nicholson, H. 2023. Women and the Crusades. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nicholson, H. 2023. The picture across the water. The foundation of Templar and Hospitaller houses in Britain and Ireland in the twelfth century.. In: Bandlien, B. ed. Jerusalem in Viken. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, pp. 177-192.
Nicholson, H. 2023. The Reception of the ordo novus of the Temple, 1120–1150. In: Baudin, A. and Josserand, P. eds. D’orient en Occident. Les Templiers des origines à la fin du XIIe siècle. Ghent: Snoeck, pp. 220-233.

2022

Nicholson, H. 2022. ‘Dominus Jhesus novum genus militie constituit et elegit: “the Lord Jesus has set up and chosen a new sort of knighthood”. The military orders’ relations with women from the twelfth to the sixteenth century – a survey’. Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica 27, pp. 9-44., article number: 1. (10.12775/OM.2022.001)
Nicholson, H. J. 2022. The military-religious orders in Ireland: their patrons and their purpose. In: Coleman, E., Duffy, P. and O'Keeffe, T. eds. Ireland and the Crusades. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 107-120.
Nicholson, H. 2022. The Sultan at the hospital: a thirteenth-century tale of Saladin and the Hospitallers. In: Buck, A. D. and Smith, T. W. eds. Chronicle, Crusade, and the Latin East: Essays in Honour of Susan Edgington. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East Vol. 16. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 223-237.
Nicholson, H. J. 2022. Sybil, Queen of Jerusalem 1186-1190. Rulers of the Latin East Vol. 5. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315205960)
Nicholson, H. 2022. The trial of the Templars in Britain and Ireland. Presented at: Convegno internazionale di studi Perugia/Perugia International Study Conference, 14-15 November 2019 Presented at Baudin, A., Merli, S. and Santanicchia, M. eds.Gli Ordini di Terrasanta: Questioni aperte nuovi acquisitioni (secoli XII-XVI). Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi Perugia, 14-15 novembre 2019. Perugia: Fabrizio Fabbri Editore pp. 487-500.

2021

Nicholson, H. 2021. The Templars and ‘Atlit. In: Fishhof, G., Bronstein, J. and Shotten-Hallel, V. R. eds. Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East. Crusades Subsidia Vol. 15. London: Routledge, pp. 71-90.
Nicholson, H. J. 2021. The Knights Templar. Past Imperfect. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press.
Nicholson, H. J. 2021. The trial of the Templars in Britain and Ireland. In: Burgtorf, J., Lotan, S. and Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, E. eds. The Templars: The Rise, Fall and Legacy of a Military Religious Order. The Military-Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory London: Routledge, pp. 209-233., (10.4324/9781003163510-13)

2020

Nicholson, H. J. 2020. The hospitallers in medieval Britain. In: Sarnowsky, J. et al. eds. Studies on the Military Orders, Prussia, and Urban History: Essays in Honour of Roman Czaja on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday / Beiträge zur Ritterordens-, Preußen- und Städteforschung. Festschrift für Roman Czaja zum 60. Geburtstag. Debrecen: University of Debrecen, pp. 41-55.
Nicholson, H. 2020. Queen Sybil of Jerusalem as a military leader. In: Burgtorf, J., Hoffart, C. and Kubon, S. eds. Von Hamburg nach Java. Studien zur mittelalterlichen, neuen und digitalen Geschichte zu Ehren von Jürgen Sarnowsky. Nova Mediaevalia: Quellen und Studien zum europaeischen Mittelalter Vol. 18. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 265-276.
Nicholson, H. and Burgtorf, J. eds. 2020. The Templars, the hospitallers and the crusades: essays in homage to Alan J. Forey. The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory Vol. 2. London: Routledge.
Nicholson, H. 2020. What the Hospitaller said to the bishop. In: Nicholson, H. and Burgtorf, J. eds. The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey. The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory Vol. 2. London: Routledge, pp. 215-226.
Nicholson, H. 2020. Negotiation and conflict: the Templars’ and Hospitallers’ relations with diocesan bishops in Britain and Ireland. In: Smith, T. W. ed. Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000–c. 1500. Europa Sacra Vol. 24. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 272-389.

2019

Nicholson, H. 2019. The Military Orders. In: Jones, R. W. and Coss, P. eds. A Companion to Chivalry. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 69-84.
Nicholson, H. 2019. The surveys and accounts of the Templars’ estates in England and Wales (1308–13). In: Lippiatt, G. E. M. and Bird, J. L. eds. Crusading Europe: Essays in Honour of Christopher Tyerman. Outremer: Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East Vol. 8. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 181-209.
Nicholson, H. 2019. Holy warriors, worldly war: Military religious orders and secular conflict’. In: France, J., DeVries, K. and Rogers, C. J. eds. Journal of Medieval Military History., Vol. 17., pp. 61-79.
Nicholson, H. 2019. The true gentleman? Correct behaviour towards women according to Christian and Muslim writers: from the Third Crusade to Sultan Baybars. In: Hodgson, N. R., Lewis, K. J. and Mesley, M. M. eds. Crusading and Masculinities. Crusades Subsidia Vol. 13. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 100-112.
Nicholson, H. 2019. Women's writing and cultural patronage. In: Bale, A. ed. The Cambridge companion to the literature of the Crusades. The Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 72-84., (10.1017/9781108672832.006)
Nicholson, H. J. 2019. The construction of a primary source. The creation of Itinerarium Peregrinorum 1. Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 37, pp. 143-165., article number: 7. (10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09701-3.p.0143)

2018

Nicholson, H. 2018. Evidence of the Templars' Religious Practice from the Records of the Templars' Estates in Britain and Ireland in 1308. In: Shagrir, I., Kedar, B. Z. and Balard, M. eds. Communicating the Middle Ages: Essays in honour of Sophia Menache. Crusades - Subsidia Vol. 11. London: Routledge, pp. 50-63.
Nicholson, H. 2018. Remembering the crusaders in Cyprus: the Lusignans, the Hospitallers and the 1191 conquest of Cyprus in Jean d’Arras’ Mélusine. In: Parsons, S. T. and Paterson, L. M. eds. Literature of the Crusades. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, pp. 158-172.
Nicholson, H. 2018. Memory and the military orders: an overview. In: Fernandes, I. C. ed. Entre Deus e o Rei: O Mundo das Ordens Militares., Vol. 1. Palmela: Município de Palmela – GEsOS, pp. 17-28.

2017

Nicholson, H. J. 2017. The everyday life of the Templars: The Knights Templar at home. Stroud: Fonthill.
Nicholson, H. J. and Slavin, P. 2017. “The Real Da Vinci Code”: The accounts of Templars’ estates in England and Wales during the suppression of the Order. In: Borchardt, K. et al. eds. The Templars and their Sources. London: Routledge, pp. 237-247.
Nicholson, H. J. 2017. Documents, editions and translations. In: Loughran, T. L. ed. A Practical Guide to Studying History: Skill and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 171-183.
Nicholson, H. J. 2017. What became of the Templars after the trial of 1307-14?. In: Jordan, W. C. and Phillips, J. R. eds. The Capetian century, 1214–1314. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Vol. 22. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 323-347.

2016

Nicholson, H. J. 2016. “La Damoisele del chastel”: women’s role in the defence and functioning of castles in medieval writing from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. In: Sinibaldi, M. et al. eds. Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Levant. The Archaeology and History of the Latin East. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 387-401.
Nicholson, H. J. 2016. St Ursula and the military religious orders. In: Cartwright, J. ed. The Cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 41-59.
Nicholson, H. J. 2016. How secret were the Templars’ ceremonies? Evidence from the proceedings in the British Isles. In: Sammarco, S. ed. Commilitones Christi: Miscellanea di studi per il Centro Italiano di Documenttzione sull’Ordine del Tempio, MMXI–MMXVI. Rome: Lisanti, pp. 85-98.
Nicholson, H. J. 2016. The Templars’ Estates in the west of Britain in the early fourteenth century. In: Schenk, J. and Carr, M. eds. The Military Orders, vol. 6. Culture and Conflict in Western and Northern Europe., Vol. 2. The Military Orders Vol. 6. London: Routledge, pp. 132-142.

2015

Nicholson, H. J. 2015. A long way from Jerusalem: the Templars and Hospitallers in Ireland, c. 1172–c.1348. In: Browne, M. and Ó Clabaigh, C. eds. Soldiers of Christ: The Knights Hospitaller and The Knights Templar in Medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 1-22.
Nicholson, H. J. 2015. “Nolite confidere in principibus”: The Military Orders’ relations with the rulers of Christendom. In: Josserand, P., Oliveira, L. F. and Carraz, D. eds. Élites et Orders Militaires au Moyen Age: Recontre Autour d’Alain Demurger. Madrid: Casa de Veláquez, pp. 261-276.
Nicholson, H. 2015. Women's involvement in the Crusades. In: Boas, A. ed. The Crusader World. Routledge Worlds Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 54-67.

2014

Nicholson, H. J. 2014. Re-translating William of Tyre: The origins of the templars and hospitallers according to London, British library additional manuscript 5444, fols 242v-248r. In: Edgington, S. B. and Nicholson, H. J. eds. Deeds Done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders presented to Peter Edbury. Crusades - Subsidia Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 53-68.
Nicholson, H. J. 2014. 'Martyrum collegio sociandus haberet': Depictions of the Military Orders' Martyrs in the Holy Land, 1187-1291. In: John, S. and Morton, N. eds. Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages: Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France. Crusades - Subsidia Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 101-118.
Edgington, S. B. and Nicholson, H. J. eds. 2014. Deeds done beyond the sea: essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the military orders presented to Peter Edbury. Crusades - Subsidia Vol. 6. Aldershot: Ashgate.

2013

Nicholson, H. J. 2013. The Templars in Britain: Garway and South Wales. In: Baudin, A., Brunel, G. and Dohrmann, N. eds. L'économie templière en Occident: Patrimoines, commerce, finances - Actes du colloque international. Langres: Éditions Dominique Guéniot, pp. 323-336.
Nicholson, H. J. 2013. The Knights Hospitaller. In: Burton, J. and Stober, K. eds. Monastic Wales: New Approaches. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 147-161.
Nicholson, H. J. 2013. The hero meets his match: Cultural encounters in narratives of wars against Muslims. In: Jensen, K. V., Salonen, K. and Vogt, H. eds. Cultural Encounters during the Crusades: Proceedings of the First Medieval Conference at the Danish Institute in Damascus, 2009. University of Southern Denmark Studies in History and Social Sciences Vol. 445. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, pp. 115-118.
Nicholson, H. J. 2013. The military religious orders in the towns of the British Isles. In: Carraz, D. ed. Les ordres militaires dans la ville méduévale (1100-1350). Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, pp. 113-126.

2012

Nicholson, H. J. 2012. The Hospitallers' and Templars' involvement in warfare on the frontiers of the British Isles in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Ordines Militares: Colloquia Torunensia Historica: Yearbook for the study of the Military Orders 17, pp. 105-119.
Nicholson, H. J. 2012. Love in a hot climate: Gender relations in 'Florent et Octavien'. In: Lambert, S. and Nicholson, H. J. eds. Languages of Love and Hate: Conflict, Communication and Identity in the Medieval Mediterreanean. International Medieval Research Vol. 15. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 21-36.
Nicholson, H. J. 2012. The military orders in Wales and the Welsh March in the Middle Ages. In: Edbury, P. W. ed. The Military Orders Volume 5: Politics and Power. The Military Orders Vol. 5. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 189-207.
Nicholson, H. 2012. Charity and hospitality in military orders. In: As Ordens Militares : Freires, Guerreiros, Cavaleiros : Actas do VI Encontro sobre Ordens Militares : 10 a 14 de Março de 2010., Vol. 1. Palmela, Portugal: Município de Palmela, pp. 193-206.

2011

Nicholson, H. J. 2011. Myths and reality: the Crusades and the Latin East as presented during the Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308–1311. In: Nicholson, H. J. ed. On the Margins of Crusading: the Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World. Crusades - Subsidia Vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 89-99.
Nicholson, H. J. ed. 2011. On the margins of crusading: the military orders, the Papacy and the Christian world. Crusades – Subsidia Vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate.
Nicholson, H. J. ed. 2011. The proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles - Volume 2: The Translation. Farnham: Ashgate.
Nicholson, H. J. ed. 2011. The proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles - Volume 1: The Latin Edition. Farnham: Ashgate.
Nicholson, H. J. 2011. Water in medieval warfare. In: Tvedt, T., Chapman, G. and Hagen, R. eds. Water, Geopolitics and the New World Order. A History of Water: Series 2 Vol. 3. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, pp. 138-155.
Nicholson, H. J. ed. 2011. The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles. Volume 1: The Latin Edition, Volume 2: The Translation. Ashgate.

2010

Nicholson, H. J. 2010. The trial of the Templars in Ireland. In: Nicholson, H. J., Crawford, P. F. and Burgtorf, J. eds. The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307–1314). Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 225-235.
Nicholson, H., Crawford, P. F. and Burgtorf, J. eds. 2010. The debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307–1312). Farnham and Burlington, VT (USA): Ashgate.
Nicholson, H. J. 2010. The changing face of the Templars: current trends in historiography. History Compass 8(7), pp. 653-667. (10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00691.x)
Nicholson, H. J. 2010. At the Heart of Medieval London: the New Temple in the Middle Ages. In: Park, D. and Griffith-Jones, R. eds. The Temple Church in London: History, Architecture, Art. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, pp. 1-18.
Nicholson, H. J. 2010. A brief history of the Knights Templar. London: Robinson.

2009

Nicholson, H. J. 2009. The Knights Templar on trial: The trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308-1311. Stroud: The History Press.

2008

Nicholson, H. J. 2008. The Hospitallers and the 'Peasants' Revolt' revisited. In: Mallia-Milanes, V. ed. The Military Orders Volume 3: History and Heritage. The Military Orders Vol. 3. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 225-233.
Nicholson, H. J. 2008. The Hospitallers and the "Peasants' Revolt" of 1381 revisited. In: Mallia-Milanes, V. ed. The Military Orders. Volume 3, History and heritage. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 225-234.

2006

Luttrell, A. and Nicholson, H. J. eds. 2006. Hospitaller women in the Middle Ages. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Nicholson, H. J. 2006. “La roine preude femme et bonne dame”: Queen Sybil of Jerusalem (1186–1190) in History and Legend, 1186–1300. The Haskins Society Journal 15

2005

Nicholson, H. J. and Burgtorf, J. eds. 2005. International mobility in the military orders: travelling on Christ's business. Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Nicholson, H. J. ed. 2005. Palgrave advances in the crusades. Palgrave Advances. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nicholson, H. J. 2005. The Sisters’ House at Minwear, Pembrokeshire: analysis of the documentary and archaeological evidence. Archaeologia Cambrensis 151, pp. 109-138.

2004

Nicholson, H. J. 2004. Echoes of the past and present crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin. Romania 122(3-4), pp. 320-340.

2003

Nicholson, H. J. 2003. Medieval warfare: theory and practice of war in Europe, 300-1500. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2001

Nicholson, H. J. 2001. The knights hospitaller. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
Nicholson, H. J. 2001. The Knights Templar: a new history. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.

2000

Nicholson, H. J. 2000. Following the Path of the Lionheart: the De ortu Walwanii and the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi’. Medium Aevum 69(1), pp. 21-33.
Nicholson, H. J. 2000. Love, war and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval epic and romance, 1150-1500. Leiden: Brill.

1999

Nicholson, H. J. 1999. Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of St John at Aconbury, Herefordshire. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 50(4), pp. 629-651.

1997

Nicholson, H. J. 1997. Women on the Third Crusade. Journal of Medieval History 23(4), pp. 335-349. (10.1016/S0304-4181(97)00013-4)
de Templo, R. and Stubbs, W. Nicholson, H. J. ed. 1997. The chronicle of the third crusade: the itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi.Nicholson, H. J. Crusade Texts in Translation Vol. 3. Aldershot: Ashgate.

1993

Nicholson, H. J. 1993. Templars, hospitallers and Teutonic knights: images of the military orders, 1128–1291. Project Report. Leicester: Leicester University Press.

The Knights Templars' Estates in England and Wales in the early fourteenth century

This project follows on from my publication of the Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (Ashgate, 2011), and edition and translation of the trial proceedings against the Templars in Britain and Ireland.

The Templars' estates in England and Wales were inventoried at the time of the Templars' arrests early in January 1308. From that time until the dissolution of the Order in Britain in July 1311, the estates were administered by royal keepers. Full records were taken and are preserved in the National Archives (TNA). These records have hardly been studied by scholars. They offer a unique opportunity to study how a non-noble institution exploited its landed property and how it related with its local community, at a time when English landowners were just beginning to run their estates indirectly, employing skilled bailiffs, rather than directly.

This project aims to answer a number of questions, including:

What property did the Templars in England and Wales hold in January 1308? Is it possible to establish (e.g. through the Inquisitiones post Mortem or the Hundred Rolls) what this property was worth in earlier years? Is it possible to discover what it was worth in future years (e.g. in 1324, 1338, or in later Inquisitiones post Mortem)?
Whom did the Templars employ on their estates, on what terms?
How was their property exploited/ developed between 1308-11, when the Order was dissolved in Britain?
What did they produce (such as wool, beef, cider, fish, coal)?
What were their relations with local communities?
Did the form of the documents recording this information vary from one locality to the next? Were the documents audited?

Outputs to date include a series of articles on the Templars' estates in Britain and a book, The Everyday Life of the Templars (Fonthill, 2017)

The Hospitallers in Britain and Ireland in the Fourteenth Century and onwards

This ongoing project investigates the role of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland in the 14th century and onwards, and attitudes towards it. This builds on my previous research into attitudes towards the Military Religious Orders in the Middle Ages, and my current research into the Order of the Temple in the early fourteenth century. Much research is being done on the Hospital of St John in the fourteenth century, but the Order in the Britain and Ireland has been largely overlooked.

Questions include: how did the trial and destruction of the Order of the Temple in 1312 affect attitudes towards its sister order, the Hospital? How far did the Hospital replace the Temple in its various functions, from its role in royal administration to its roles in the local community? What was the state of the Templars' estates by the time that the Hospital was able to acquire them – how far had their economic value declined? How far did the Hospitallers continue the Templars' relations with their secular patrons, and with the Church?

Other projects

I continue to work on aspects of the primary sources for the Third Crusade, especially the so-called Itinerarium Peregrinorum 1, on medieval 'fictional' literature as a source for medieval European culture and society, and on women's involvement in the Crusades and with the Templars and Hospitallers.

I retired on 30 September 2022 and am no longer teaching undergraduate or postgraduate students.

Education and qualifications

1990 PhD (History), for thesis entitled: 'Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291: spiritual, secular, romantic'. Supervisor: Norman Housley, Department of History, University of Leicester.

1986 Admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

1986 MA (Oxon.)

1979–1982 BA Ancient and Modern History, University of Oxford (St Hilda's College): First class.

Career overview

1994–2022 member of staff in School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University (1994–96: fixed-term lecturer; 1996 lecturer; 2000: Senior Lecturer; 2004 Reader; 2013 Professor). I retired from the University at the end of September 2022.

1992–1994 Part-time teaching assistant in the Department of History, University of Leicester.

1990–1992 Maternity break.

1986–1989 Open Research Scholarship in the Department of History, University of Leicester.

1982–1985 Employer: Coopers and Lybrand, Chartered Accountants, Leicester. Final position: Audit Senior.

Honours and awards

12 June 2019: as one of the Scientific Committee for the Military and Religious Orders conferences at Palmela, Portugal, I shared in the award of a Council Medal of Muncipal Merit by the Municípo Palmela. This award was to acknowledge thirty years of these conferences.

2003–2004 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

Other awards:

2013 (with Dr Bronach Kane): Royal Historical Society grant for their postgraduate visiting speakers series, subsidising a one-day symposium ‘Conflict in Historical Perspectives’, 23 January 2015;
2009, 1997 Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust grants towards publication of conference proceedings;
2008 Cadw grant to the Cardiff Centre for the Crusades towards conference costs;
2011, 2003 British Academy Overseas Conference Grants towards attending the Ordines Militares – Colloquia Torunensia Historica conferences XII and XVI in Toruń, Poland;
1999 Isaiah Berlin travel award from the Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East

Professional memberships

2017 elected as Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales;
2002 elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society;
Member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, the Ecclesiastical History Society, the International Arthurian Society, and Societas Magica

Contact Details

NicholsonHJ@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 74250

Research themes

Specialisms

Medieval history
Crusades
warfare

Professor Helen Nicholson BA (Oxon.) MA, PhD FLSW FRHistS

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