Templars, hospitallers and Teutonic knights: images of the military orders, 1128–1291

Nicholson, Helen Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-1246 1993. Templars, hospitallers and Teutonic knights: images of the military orders, 1128–1291. [Project Report]. Leicester: Leicester University Press.

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Abstract

The Military Orders were religious orders originally founded to protect Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. They gradually became responsible for the defence of the Holy Land itself and throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they played a major role in every crusade to the Holy Land. Historians have long disagreed over how contemporaries viewed these institutions. Were they accepted as valid religious orders? How far did criticism reflect a decline in support for crusading? This book sets out to examine the contemporary primary sources without preconceptions, considering a wide variety of written evidence from across Europe and the Middle East, including literary sources and the legends which grew up around the Military Orders during the crusades.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DAW Central Europe D History General and Old World > DC France D History General and Old World > DD Germany D History General and Old World > DG Italy D History General and Old World > DL Northern Europe. Scandinavia D History General and Old World > DS Asia P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Publisher:	Leicester University Press
ISBN:	9780718514112
Funders:	University of Leicester
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:40
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59582

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