Helen J. Nicholson

Helen J. Nicholson is a professor emerita in medieval history at Cardiff University in Wales. She has published extensively on the military orders, the crusades, and medieval warfare, and has done pioneering work on the proceedings against the Templars, the representations of military orders in medieval literature, and, not least, women and the crusades. Nicholson’s most recent publications include The Knights Templar (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), Sibyl, Queen of Jerusalem (Routledge, 2022), and Women and the Crusades (Oxford University Press, 2023).