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The Participation of the Military Orders in Truces with Muslims in the Holy Land and Spain during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Posted on June 10, 2013 | No CommentsAlthough the military orders’ primary function was to fight against the infidel, warfare in the Middle Ages was never continuous, as armies could not be kept in the field indefinitely, and when there was an imbalance of power between Christians and Muslims it was in the interests of the weaker side to seek truces, even at the expense of concessions. -
The Hospitallers’ and Templars’ involvement in warfare on the frontiers of the British Isles in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Posted on June 8, 2013 | No CommentsAlthough in theory they were independent religious orders answerable only to the pope, in the British Isles the Templars, and particularly the Hospitallers, were increasingly secularised institutions, serving the king of England and playing important roles in royal government -
The Battle of La Forbie (1244) and its Aftermath
Posted on June 6, 2013 | No CommentsHow did the kingdom’s leaders cope with the battlefield defeat? How did the settlements survive? Above all, what was the Military Orders’ contribution to the kingdom’s stability after the chaos following the battle? -
Muslim Perspectives on the Military Orders during the Crusades
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No CommentsWhat caused the particular enmity between Saladin and the Templars and Hospitallers? To understand this situation one must begin with examination of Muslim perspectives on monasticism in general. -
The patronage of the Templars and of the Order of St. Lazarus in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Posted on January 15, 2013 | No CommentsThe religious revival of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries saw the rise of a host of new orders ranging from the Cistercians and Carthusians to the Augustinian and Premonstratensian canons. In addition, it also saw the development of the Military Orders which originated in the Holy Land after the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, and fulfilled a mixture of military, hospitaller, religious and political functions. -
Hot Holiday Reads!
Posted on November 23, 2012 | No CommentsPut down those turkey left-overs and check out some of these hot holiday reads! -
Salutare Animas Nostras: The Ideologies Behind the Foundation of the Templars
Posted on November 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe meteoric rise of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (more commonly known as the Knights Templar) and their equally swift fall has fueled fanciful tales and scholarly research. The order promoted their mythological origins and the extreme charges leveled against them by Philip IV of France (1285-1314) created an atmosphere of speculation. -
Nomadic Violence in the First Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Military Orders
Posted on October 8, 2012 | No CommentsThat the threat posed by bands of marauders was taken seriously by the early crusader settlers can be seen by some of the barons’ brutal reactions to it. -
Templars and Confraternities: Organizational Competition in Thirteenth Century Iberia
Posted on August 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe undoing of the Templars was in part a result of their own over-reaching, but it also came because they opened up an organizational arena that other military orders and confraternities came to fill. -
The Sword Brothers – Knights Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights
Posted on July 16, 2012 | No CommentsListen to the three-part programme The Sword Brothers, broadcast by the CBC radio show Ideas -
Reflections on The Malleus Maleficarum in Light of the Trial of Joan of Arc
Posted on June 27, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Joan’s trial took place in France and The Malleus Maleficarum was published in Germany, they are suitable for comparison because this text became the definitive manual for witchcraft inquisitors across Europe. -
The Creation and Demise of the Knights Templar
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsThis thesis investigates the Order of the Knights Templar by examining the varied phenomena that led to the formation of the Order in the early twelfth century and its dissolution nearly two hundred years later -
Saints or Sinners? The Knights Templar in Medieval Europe
Posted on November 24, 2011 | No CommentsWhat did medieval contemporaries think of military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights? Helen Nicholson investigates. -
Forms of Lay Association with the Order of the Temple
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsForms of Lay Association with the Order of the Temple By Jochen G. Schenk Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 34 (2008) Introduction: Over time, Templar commanderies, like most religious houses, gathered... -
An investigation and analysis of the activities of the Knights Templar in the North-East, specifically the Cleveland area, that provides an additional comment on the current historiography
Posted on July 29, 2011 | No CommentsAn investigation and analysis of the activities of the Knights Templar in the North-East, specifically theCleveland area, that provides an additional comment on the current historiography Young, Christopher (University of Teesside) The School... -
The Templar Trials: Did the System Work?
Posted on July 25, 2011 | No CommentsAlthough the trials in general were held with enormous personal expenditures and by obviously careful observation of procedural rules, the ’system did not really work’; it was undermined by the dynamics of a legal instrument (that is, torture), which in the end was based on the use of violence. -
Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291: Spiritual, Secular, Romantic
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsImages of the Military Orders, 1128-1291: Spiritual, Secular, Romantic Nicholson, Helen Jane PhD thesis, University of Leicester, December (1989) Abstract The intention of this study is to examine attitudes towards... -
RELIGION, WARRIOR ELITES, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
Posted on July 17, 2011 | No CommentsRELIGION, WARRIOR ELITES, AND PROPERTY RIGHTS Hull, Brooks B. and Bold, Frederick Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture 2011 Annual Meeting Abstract In 1119 A.D., King Baldwin II of Jerusalem... -
Brotherhood of Vice: Sodomy Islam, and the Knights Templar
Posted on July 1, 2011 | No CommentsBrotherhood of Vice: Sodomy Islam, and the Knights Templar By Mark Steckler Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry, Vol.34 (2007-8) Introduction: On Friday October 13, 1307, members of the Order... -
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CHARGES AND MOTIVATIONS OF THE CAPETIAN MONARCHY BEHIND INSTITUTING THE FALL OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsAN ENQUIRY INTO THE CHARGES AND MOTIVATIONS OF THE CAPETIAN MONARCHY BEHINDINSTITUTING THE FALL OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE Singhal, Chetan The Concord Review, Vol. 21:4 (2011) Abstract The Templars were... -
Templar castles between Jaffa and Jerusalem
Posted on June 12, 2011 | No CommentsTemplar castles between Jaffa and Jerusalem By Denys Pringle The military orders: volume 2: welfare and warfare, edited by Helen Nicholson (Ashgate, 2007) Introduction: The main duty of the Templars... -
The Crusades of 1239-41 and Their Aftermath
Posted on May 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe Crusades of 1239-41 and Their Aftermath By Peter Jackson Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1 (1987) Introduction: The period of the crusades... -
Rosslyn Chapel: A Legacy in Stone
Posted on April 17, 2011 | No CommentsSo is the Grail or some other treasure really hidden there? Did the Templars really build Rosslyn, as some allege? Why is Rosslyn Chapel so important today? -
Remains of Crusader / Templar army discovered in Israel
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsArchaeologists and historians working in northern Israel have discovered the remains of a Templar and Crusader army who were slaughtered by Saladin in one of the major battles of the... -
Opposing Identity: Muslims, Christians and the Military Orders in Rural Aragon
Posted on March 21, 2011 | No CommentsOpposing Identity: Muslims, Christians and the Military Orders in Rural Aragon Gerrard, Christopher Medieval Archaeology, Vol.43 (2000) Abstract This paper addresses the issue of identity among Christian and Muslim groups in...