About the Author

Helen Nicholson is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Cardiff. She is a specialist in the Medieval military orders (her publications include, Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights, Images of the Military Orders. 1128-1291)Cassell, 1993) and a member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, the Arthurian Society and the Ecclesiastical History Society.