Author: Helen J. Nicholson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: crusades, advances, palgrave
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-06-18
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1403912378
ISBN-13: 9781403912374

This book provides an overview and context of the study of the Crusades for postgraduates and academics. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book covers developments in historical theory from logistics to gender studies as applied to Crusades studies.

Author: Helen Nicholson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: hospitaller, knights
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-12-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0851158455
ISBN-13: 9780851158457

This short study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as well as the interested general reader. Beginning with a consideration of the origins of the Order as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the eleventh century, it traces the Hospitaller’s development into a military order during the first part of the twelfth century, and its military activities on the frontiers of Christendom in the eastern Mediterranean, Spain and eastern Eur

Author: Helen J. Nicholson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: warfare, medieval
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-01-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0333763300
ISBN-13: 9780333763308

Helen Nicholson offers a masterly synthesis and summary of the present state of knowledge and debates on various aspects of warfare in medieval Catholic Europe between AD 300 and 1500. Nicholson provides a general overview of the subject, with greater detail on topics of particular interest. Individual chapters consider the theory of warfare, military personnel, buildings and equipment, as well as the practice of warfare by land and sea.

Author: Helen Jane Nicholson
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: medieval, world, events, historic, greenwood, guides, crusades
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313326851
ISBN-13: 9780313326851

The Crusades of the Middle Ages were fought by "Latin" Christians against peoples who they believed were threatening the existence of their Christian faith. Some of these campaigns were against Muslims, some were against other Christians, and some were against pagans. Topically oriented chapters backed up by biographies, primary documents, maps and illustrations make this an ideal introductory reference resource to this pivotal period in European medieval history.

Authors:Anthony Luttrell, Helen J. Nicholson,
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: ages, middle, women, hospitaller
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0754606465
ISBN-13: 9780754606468

This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in women’s religious houses during the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the problems which they faced and the social needs which they performed. The military-religious orders have been largely excluded from this interest, partly because it has been assumed that women played little role in religious

Authors:Helen Nicholson,  Wayne Reynold,
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: warrior, templar, knight
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-10-22
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1841766704
ISBN-13: 9781841766706

The order of the Temple was a military-religious organisation that was set up to protect pilgrims and settlers in the Holy Land. The Templars believed they were God’s warriors fighting on God’s behalf and developed a fearsome reputation among the neighbouring Muslim rulers. This book examines the men who joined the order and why they joined it, focusing on those who fought in the Holy Land. Based on contemporary sources it provides an effective insight into the daily lives of the warriors, from their admission ceremony to their training, organisation in the field, and how they foug

Authors:Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: contemporary, practices, histories, devising, performance, making
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-06-24
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0415286530
ISBN-13: 9780415286534

Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century. This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia’s Legs on the Wall, Britain’s Forced Entertainment and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages. Design