Military Orders and Crusades

ISBN-13: 9780860783985 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 328 str.

Alan Forey

Opis

Most articles in this work cover military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries. Some are studies of the history of particular orders. The majority, however, are broader in scope, discussing the development, organization and activities of the military orders up to the early 14th century.

Recenzje

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Spis treści

Contents: The emergence of the military order in the twelfth century; Recruitment to the military orders (twelfth to mid-fourteenth centuries); Novitiate and instruction in the military orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; Women and the military orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The military orders and the Spanish reconquest in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The military orders and the ransoming of captives from Islam(twelfth to early fourteenth centuries); The military orders and holy war against Christians in the thirteenth century; the military orders in the crusading proposals of the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries; The militarisation of the hospital of St John; Constitutional conflict and change in the hospital of St John during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The order of Mountjoy; The military order of St Thomas of Acre; The crusading vows of the English King Henry III; Index.

O autorze

Alan Forey