Templar Families: Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, C.1120-1307

ISBN-13: 9781107004474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 356 str.

Jochen Schenk

Opis

This study explores the relationship between the Order of the Temple and the network of landowning families that supported it.

Recenzje

'Schenk has succeeded marvelously in giving flesh to the Templar map of France and populating it with a vast array of men and women, whose religious landscapes and 'mental maps' we now understand much more clearly.' Anne E. Lester, Speculum

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Templar families; 2. The religious context of Templar support; 3. Templars and families; 4. Family networks; 5. Crusading and its legacy in Templar families; Conclusion.