Dr Helen Nicholson
Qualifications
1979-1982 B.A. degree in Ancient and
Modern History at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. Class awarded: First.
1986 Converted B.A. degree to an M.A.
1990 Obtained PhD.
Career Overview
1994- present member of staff in School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University (1994-96: fixed-term lecturer; 1996 lecturer; 2000: Senior Lecturer; 2004 Reader).
1992-1994 Part-time teaching assistant in the Dept of History, University of Leicester.
1990-1992 Maternity break.
1986-1989 Open Research Scholarship in the Dept of History, University of Leicester.
1986 Admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
1982-1985 Employer: Coopers and Lybrand, Chartered Accountants, Abacus House, 32 Friar Lane, Leicester, LE1 5RA. Final position: Audit Senior.
Teaching Profile
Undergraduate
With my colleagues in medieval history, I contribute to Medieval Europe, Heresy and Dissent, Exploring Historical Debate
Postgraduate
Together with my colleagues, Professors Peter Edbury and Denys Pringle, I teach an MA course on the History of the Crusades. I also offer postgraduate modules on Heresy and on Gender in the middle Ages. I also contribute to the MA in Medieval British Studies,
Other Activities
2002 elected as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society;
1999-2002 Treasurer of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East; 1999-2004: associate editor of the Society’s journal Crusades;
Member of the Ecclesiastical History Society, the International Arthurian Society and Societas Magica.
Notable Achievements
1982 Helen Smith Prize for a first class degree in History;
1986-1989 awarded an Open Research Scholarship in the Dept of History, University of Leicester;
1997 publication of Chronicle of the Third Crusade, my translation of the Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi. This is now the standard, often-quoted translation of this text, an important source for late twelfth-century warfare;
1999 set up a new website for the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (an international academic society) with a ‘frequently asked questions’ page. Site described as ‘most informative’ by a scholarly online list of websites on the crusades and much praised by users;
2001 publication of three books: a monograph, Love, War and the Grail, and two general surveys, Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar;
2001 my article of 2000 proposing a new source and dating for the De ortu Walwanii is hailed as ‘ground breaking’ (Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society).
Publications
Edited by Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson (2006) Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages. Ashgate Publishing.
Edited by Jochen Burgtorf and Helen Nicholson (2006) International Mobility in the Military Orders (12th to 15th Centuries): Travelling on Christ’s Business. UK: University of Wales Press. USA: University of Alabama Press.
Edited by Helen J. Nicholson (2005) Palgrave Advances in the Crusades. Palgrave Macmillan.
Helen Nicholson (2003) Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500. Palgrave Macmillan.
Helen Nicholson (2001, 2003) The Knights Hospitaller. Boydell Press.
Helen Nicholson (2001, 2004) The Knights Templar: A New History. Sutton Publishing.
Helen J. Nicholson (2000) Love, War, and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150-1500. Brill.
Helen J. Nicholson (1997, 2001) Chronicle of the Third Crusade: A Translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi. Ashgate.
