Military Orders and Crusades : Essays Presented to Helen J. Nicholson (Hardcover)

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 Chatillon 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 Aragon? 21. On the fourteenth-century?magistra?of the Hospital in the Hospitaller commandery at Wurzburg 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