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Myths and reality: the Crusades and the Latin East as presented during the Trial of the Templars in the British Isles, 1308–1311
No full textHelen Nicholson uses testimonies given during the trial of the Templars in the British Isles to explore what the people of Britain and Ireland actually knew about the Holy Land during the early years of the fourteenth century. Having discussed the problems of using such testimony evidence, she shows that there was a certain level of travel from Ireland to the eastern Mediterranean, and argues that some of those who spoke against the Templars did have a personal interest in the situation in the Middle East
“The Real Da Vinci Code”: The accounts of Templars’ estates in England and Wales during the suppression of the Order
No full textMost readers will be familiar with at least the title of Dan Brown’s 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code. In the novel, a cryptic code holds the key to valuable knowledge held by the Templars that has been hidden from the world for centuries. Likewise in this paper Nicholson and Slavin discuss valuable information about the Templars that has been effectively concealed within the documents drawn up at the time of the Templars’ arrests in Britain and Ireland and during the proceedings against the Templars. This valuable information comprises data revealing the extent of the Templars’ estates and their moveable and immoveable property at the time of the arrests and at intervals thereafter, and the income and expenditure of those estates during the time that they were administered by the English king’s officials. The data were recorded by royal officials and are preserved in the National Archives of the UK in Kew, but these records’ heavily abbreviated state and sometimes poor state of preservation renders them effectively unintelligible to the majority of readers: hence they are effectively encoded. In this paper, the authors explain how these documents were produced, summarise the information that they contain, and then present a detailed analysis of some of the data within them.
This paper is founded in Nicholson and Slavin's planned research project into the Templars’ properties in England and Wales. The goal of this research is to publish the records for England and Wales (the records from Ireland were published in 1967), to make them available to all scholars with an interest in medieval estate records; but with the particular intention of establishing exactly how wealthy or poverty-stricken the Templars in Britain were in 1308, and what property the Hospitallers actually inherited here in 1313
Love in a hot climate: Gender relations in 'Florent et Octavien'
No full textIn her exploration of the role of personal relationships in transgressing religious and linguistic boundaries, Nicholson echoes the point made by Ailes (in the previous chapter) that language is both reflexive and constitutive of society and culture. In 'Florent et Octavien', the exotic locations in which much of the action takes place seem at first to function as a backdrop for a story whose focus is gender rather than religious or ethnic conflict — however, this strange cultural milieu allows for an exploration of gender norms by creating a context in which norms and mores can be set aside and different modes of interaction can be imagined, ones less constrained by the customs of contemporary society. Nicholson suggests that this work can be read as an ironic attack on the conventional languages of chivalry and romance, and possibly on the conventions of the crusade cycle itself. Here, religion serves as a stand-in for longstanding and unexplained hostility of any kind: actual differences between Christianity and Islam are characterized only in their adherents’ treatment of women. There is little sense of otherness in the depiction of the Saracen and references to polygamy are the only approximations of actual features of Islamic culture. For the participants in this romance, it seems chivalry, faith, honour, are evenly divided between Christian and Muslim, and the popularly perceived gender and religious stereotypes of both cultures are mocked and overturned
Echoes of the Past and Present Crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin
No full textNicholson Helen. Echoes of the Past and Present Crusades in Les Prophecies de Merlin. In: Romania, tome 122 n°487-488, 2004. pp. 320-340
What the Hospitaller said to the bishop
No full textAs Alan Forey noted in his 1992 book on the Military Orders, the military orders ‘were often accused of profiting by abusing their rights and privileges’. Not only were they accused of abusing them, but ‘the secular clergy … frequently claimed that they were seeking to extend their ecclesiastical privileges unlawfully’. This chapter considers just such a disagreement that occurred in 1521 between Charles Booth, bishop of Hereford (1516–35), and Thomas Docwra, grand prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England (1501–27). The exchange of views recorded in the bishop’s registers demonstrates both the directions in which the Hospitallers exploited their privileges and the means by which they sought to defend them. More widely, it reveals the disputes that could arise between any religious order that was generally exempt from episcopal jurisdiction and a bishop who was trying to discharge his pastoral duties and collect the revenue that was due to him. The timing of this dispute, in the third decade of the sixteenth century, means that it also illuminates relationships between the secular clergy and the exempt regular religious orders in the English Church just before the Dissolution of the monasteries
Helen Sutherland, patron, collector and friend of Ben Nicholson
No full textBen Nicholson\u27s artistic inheritance from his father Sir William Nicholson left him determined to \u27bust up the sophistication\u27 all around him and to renew and refresh representation in art. This article acknowledges existing scholarship on the trajectory of this artist\u27s career, but it inserts into this narrative a hitherto largely overlooked ingredient, that of the understanding and encouragement provided by an early patron who followed his move from a seemingly primitive form of naturalism into pure abstraction and offered crucial support over forty years to him and, at an importnat moment, to his second wife Barbara Hepworth. It examines the signficant shifts in Nicholson\u27s career in relation to key paintings and reliefs, either acquired by Helen Sutherland or given to her by the artist
Obras escogidas de Don Amós de Escalante
No full textBiblioteca de Autores Españoles continuación de la colección Rivadeneira publicada con autorización de la Real Academia EspañolaVol. I. (LXVII, 530 p.) -- vol. II. (483, [5] p.)Texto a dos col. con filete centra
The Templars and Their Sources. Edited by Karl Borchardt, Karoline Döring, Philippe Josserand, and Helen J. Nicholson
No full textThe Templars and Their Sources. Edited by Karl Borchardt, Karoline Döring, Philippe Josserand, and Helen J. Nicholson. Crusades – Subsidia 10. London–New York: Routledge, 2017. 402 pp., 24 Color Illus., 6 B/W Illus. ISBN: 9781-138-20190-3. [review]The Templars and Their Sources. Edited by Karl Borchardt, Karoline Döring, Philippe Josserand, and Helen J. Nicholson. Crusades – Subsidia 10. London–New York: Routledge, 2017. 402 pp., 24 Color Illus., 6 B/W Illus. ISBN: 9781-138-20190-3. [review
Re-translating William of Tyre: The origins of the templars and hospitallers according to London, British library additional manuscript 5444, fols 242v-248r
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