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The Templars and their Sources
Even 700 years after the suppression of the Order of the Temple and the execution of the last grandmaster, Jacques de Molay, there is no shortage of publications on this influential military order. Yet unlike other medieval institutions the Templars are subject to speculative fiction and popular myth which threaten to swamp the fruits of scholarly endeavour. Fortunately, recent years have produced a thriving academic scholarship which is challenging these myths. More and more sources are currently being edited, particularly those for the trial of the Templars (1307–1312). Others are still awaiting indepth study, among them, surprisingly, the greater part of the charters that cover more tha...
Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders
As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition, residential and representational purposes. Growing affluence and an international orientation provided a wide range of development potential. That this potential was in fact exploited may be exemplified by the advanced fortifications erected by Templars and Hospitallers in the Levant. Although the history of the Military Orders has been the subject of research for a long time, their material legacy has attracted less attention. In recent years, however, a vast range of topics concerning the Or...
The Templars
As the oldest of the military religious orders and the one with an unexpected and dramatic downfall, the knighthood of the Templars continues to fascinate academics and students as well as the public at large. A collection of fifteen chapters accompanied by a historical introduction, The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order recounts and analyzes this community’s rise and establishment in both the crusader states of the eastern Mediterranean and the countries of western Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, reflects on the proceedings launched against it and its subsequent fall (1307–1314), and explores its medieval and post-medieval legacy, inc...
Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages
This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in women's religious houses during the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the problems which they faced and the social needs which they performed. The military-religious orders have been largely excluded from this interest, partly because it has been assumed that women played little role in religious orders with a predominantly military purpose. Recent research has shown this to be a misconception. Study...
The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc, Second Edition Omnibus
The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc (2nd edition) is a comprehensive ancestral chronicle, meticulously tracing the Desclergues family lineage from the Greek era through the Villa Ducal de Montblanc in Tarragona to the present in Belgium. This omnibus edition compiles the entire acclaimed series, offering an exhaustive account of the Desclergues of Montblanc alongside the author's other ancestral lines, including de Patin, de Patin de Langemark, Lesage, Benoit, Den Dauw, 't Kint, Surmont, de Croock, Ardan, Lammens, Decaestecker, and de Silva of Uduwara in Sri Lanka. This scholarly work is enriched by a comprehensive DNA analysis, providing genetic depth to the historical narrative....
La Guàrdia dels Prats i la seva església
El motiu de l'edició d'aquest llibre és ben palès: la celebració del VII Centenari de la mort de sant Pere Ermengol. És un aniversari molt important, no tan sols per a la Guàrdia, sinó per a tot l'Arquebisbat de Tarragona i per a tota l'Església catalana. És un sant màrtir de casa nostra. I les seves relíquies, tantes vegades salvades en les revoltes de guerres passades, es guarden a l'església de la Guàrdia. Ara, en aquest VII Centenari, hem fet un llibre sobre el poble de la Guàrdia dels Prats, amb els documents que en parlen i la seva població; sobre la seva església: des de la història dels seus dirigents espirituals —els rectors, ajudats des dels inicis per mercedaris...
Élites et ordres militaires au Moyen Âge
Depuis une trentaine d'années, l'étude des ordres militaires au Moyen Âge a enregistré un profond renouvellement auquel Alain Demurger a particulièrement oeuvré. Derrière l'histoire politique, par-delà les rouages institutionnels, la recherche s'est toujours plus attachée à considérer les hommes. Pourtant, la question des élites, s'agissant des frères, n'a jamais été analysée sinon de façon ponctuelle. En considérant à la fois les élites sociales, nobles ou citadines, les élites de pouvoir et de gouvernement et les propres élites des ordres militaires, ce livre n'apporte pas seulement un nouvel éclairage sur l'histoire des frères. Il contribue plus largement à la connaissance des sociétés médiévales, du XIIe au XVe siècle, depuis la péninsule Ibérique jusqu'à la Baltique et à l'Orient méditerranéen.
Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century
Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women, participated in the crusades, including not only those who took the cross but many others who shared the costs and losses, as well as the triumphs of the crusaders. This volume contains not a narrative account of the crusades in the twelfth century, but a group of studies illustrating many aspects of crusading that are often passed over in narrative histories, including the courses and historiog...
