Military Orders and Crusades Essays Presented to Helen J. Nicholson

Introduction      
Peter Edbury and Paul Webster

Part I: Everyday Life of the Military Orders

1. Ad pauperes recreandos: food-alms and identity in the Military Orders of the Hospitallers and the Templars
Judith Bronstein

2. Ad Mensam: production and consumption in English Hospitaller houses
Christie Majoros

3. Hospitaller life on Rhodes after 1309
Anthony Luttrell

Part II: Women

4. Byzantine imperial women: sisters in the ‘Macedonian Dynasty’ (867–1056)
Shaun Tougher

5. The three wives of Baldwin I
Susan B. Edgington

6. Queen Melisende and Queen Sybil: queenship, co-rule and conflict in the Kingdom of Heaven
Hayley Bassett

7. Margaret of Jerusalem and Beverley: piety and pragmatism during the Third Crusade
Jochen Burgtorf

8. Military Orders and women in medieval Italy
Kristjan Toomaspoeg

Part III: England and the Military Orders

9. The Military Orders and the minority of King Henry III
Paul Webster

10. An English proposal for a crusade against the Irish, c. 1329–1331
Norman Housley

11. A different kind of ‘Order’: English magnates and their households in the fourteenth century
Pierre Gaite

12. The Hospitallers, lordship and the Peasants’ Revolt
Bronach C. Kane

13. The crimes of Oswald Massingberd, an English Hospitaller on Malta
Nicholas McDermott

Part IV: 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
Nicholas Morton

15. Renaud of Châtillon revisited: unheeded voices
Paul F. Crawford

16. The understanding of holy war in the Prussian branch of the Teutonic Order in the post-Tannenberg period: a little-known source
Krzysztof Kwiatkowski and Gregory Leighton

Part V: Archives, Records and Sources

17. An appraisal of the Old French William of Tyre in British Library Henry Yates Thompson ms. 12
Philip D. Handyside

18. Bonifacio di Calamandrana, Giovanni Villani and a Cilician medical prescription
Elena Bellomo

19. A nepotistic culture? Women and men around Jacques de Molay: the last Templar grand master’s social and familial networks reconstructed
Philippe Josserand

20. Templar letters of the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón
Alan Forey

21. On the fourteenth-century magistra of the hospital in the Hospitaller commandery at Würzburg in Franconia
Karl Borchardt

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
Barbara Bombi

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Biography

Peter Edbury is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University and has numerous publications on the history of the crusades, Cyprus and the Latin East. He has re-edited the legal treatises by John of Ibelin (2003) and Philip of Novara (2009) and published a critical edition of the Chronique d’Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre (2023; with Massimiliano Gaggero).

Paul Webster is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University, in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, and co-ordinator of the Exploring the Past Adult Learners’ Pathway. He has published on King John, on Thomas Becket, and a translation of the Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d’Angleterre of the Anonymous of Béthune (2021; with Janet Shirley).