Helen J. Nicholson Bücher

In the first conceptual overview of current practices and debates in theatre education, Helen Nicholson explores the contribution that professional theatre practitioners make to the education of young people.

This book is the first major study of amateur theatre, offering new perspectives on its place in the cultural and social life of communities. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research, it traces the importance of amateur theatre to crafting places and the ways in which it sustains the creativity of amateur theatre over a lifetime.

Focusing on the largely overlooked trial of the Templars in the British Isles from 1308 to 1311, this book uncovers the stark differences from the infamous French trial, highlighting the lack of torture and executions. It reveals how rumors of heinous rituals were unfounded and examines the meticulous selection of evidence by inquisitors that shaped the trial's narrative. Extensive research into medieval records provides insights into the arrests, imprisonment, and eventual dissolution of the Order, complemented by a list of Templars and a gazetteer of their properties.

It also invites debate about the environments in which applied theatre takes place. Written by an experienced academic in the field, this lively text is the ideal introductory text for students on Applied Theatre degree programmes and those taking Applied Theatre modules on Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies programmes.

This is a study of the appearances of the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights in the French, German and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. It examines their religious roles, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and examines the role of 'Templars' in the Grail romances. It traces how these roles developed over time and considers what function the appearances of these military religious orders performed in the composition of a work of fictional literature. The frequent appearances of the Military Orders in medieval fictional literature are of interest both to historians and to literary specialists. This is the first study to consider the subject in depth across the medieval period.

Queen Sybil of Jerusalem, queen in her own right, was ruler of the kingdom of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. This study traces Sybil's life, from her childhood as the daughter of the heir to the throne of Jerusalem to her death in the crusading force outside the city of Acre. číst celé

"Founded in the early twelfth century, the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon united the knightly and religious roles which were at the core of medieval society. Bernard of Clairvaux played a part in drawing up the Rule of the Order, and the knights wore white cloaks to symbolise their dedication to chastity. However, many contemporaries said that money was their only love. They were involved in banking and commercial concerns that brought huge wealth, and were confidants to kings and popes. Indeed, Henry II entrusted to them the money he was forced to pay in expiation for the murder of Thomas Becket, which was to support 200 knights in the Holy Land for a year. But this wealth, combined with the failure of the Crusades in the Holy Land, led to their downfall, as Philip IV of France used the Order's shortcomings as a pretext for accusing the brothers of heresy. In 1307 the Brothers of the Order were arrested and charged with denying Christ, spitting on the crucifix, indecency and idol worship. The trial lasted until 1312, when the Order was dissolved. How did this respected religious Order, which had operated in the Holy Land and throughout Europe for over two hundred years, meet such a undignified end?"--Jacket

The crusade movement needed their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration...This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders, supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and as both defenders and aggressors. Itargues that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at the impact ofthe crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims and other Christian groups.