Böcker av Helen J. Nicholson

This collection includes articles focusing on women's depiction in contemporary writing on the crusades and their involvement with the military religious orders, the Templars' and Hospitallers' relations with the rulers of Latin Christendom and with their noble patrons, and their operations in Britain and Ireland.

Helen Nicholson surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading from the 11th century to the 16th, arguing that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades, but that the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations.

A masterly synthesis and summary of the present state of knowledge and debates on various aspects of warfare in medieval Catholic Europe between 300 and 1500 AD. It provides a general overview of the subject, with chapters on the theory of warfare, military personnel, buildings and equipment, and the practice of warfare by land and sea.

First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War.

An annotated timeline provides readers with an easy-to-follow overview of the several centuries of Crusading, and maps provide rapid and easy to read geographical and political information on the most important campaigns.