Author: Frederick Charles WoodhousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitalers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages
Author: Frederick Charles WoodhousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitalers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages
Author: F. C. WoodhousePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494718008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
F.C. Woodhouse's The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages: The Hospitallers, The Templars, The Teutonic Knights and Others is a lengthy history that looks at the medieval history of the most famous Christian military orders, groups that continue to fascinate the world today. While looking at the history of the organizations, the book also examines the roles they played in the Crusades and after.
Warriors of the Lord
Author: Michael J. WalshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The great religious orders of Christianity - the Benedictines, the Dominicans, the Franciscans and the Jesuits - are well known for their monasteries, their learning and their missions around the world. But in the Middle Ages, to some extent surviving to this day, there was another kind of religious order, one whose members' profession was to bear arms in defence of Christendom. From humble beginnings in the early 12th century, caring for the sick in the Holy Land and protecting pilgrims, the military religious orders spread out across Europe. Not only did they fight for the holy places, they helped push back Islam in Spain and what is now Portugal, and spread Christianity to the lands across the Baltic, then still pagan. The Knights of St John, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Santiago and of Calatrava, the Teutonic Knights and others played a fearsome, sometimes brutal and often neglected role in the history of Christianity. The wars, which they fought in the name of Christ, helped shape the world as we know it.
The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages
Author: F. C. WoodhousePublisher:
ISBN: 9780857062772
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Knights of the sword and Cross The principal tenets of the chivalric code of the Christian Knights of the middle ages were to fear God, to protect the afflicted and to serve ones master faithfully. The foundation of these essential principles were inevitably fertile ground for the emergence of the military religious orders of the medieval period. All was in place but the organisational structure in which the individual could live out his vows and these were introduced in several organisations of varying size and influence. This book explains the creation, activities, campaigns and battles and the knights who lived and fought under the banner of Christ often in opposition to the forces of Islam in the Middle East of the Crusades period. Within its pages the reader will discover the Knights of St. John-the Hospitallers, the Knights Templars and many minor, but interesting orders-including the Order of Avis, the Order of the Holy Ghost and the Order of Our Lady of the Lily-which flourished in Britain and Europe during the period. This is an invaluable insight into the organisation of knights of the medieval period. Available in softcover and hardback with dust jacket.
The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages
Author: Frederick Charles WoodhousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitalers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders
Author: Dr Mathias PianaPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472423364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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 Orders’ building activities has become the object of investigation, primarily with the help of archaeology. They comprise the choice of sites and building materials, provision and storage of food and water, aspects of the daily life, the design and layout of commanderies, churches and fortifications, their spatial arrangement, and the role these buildings played in their environmental context. This volume contains ten articles discussing the archaeology and architecture of buildings erected by the three major Military Orders in different geographical regions. They cover most countries of Western Europe and include a number of important fortifications in the Levant. These studies break new ground in the investigation of the built fabric of the Military Orders. Written by noted international scholars this publication is an important contribution to modern research on these institutions, which, in their association of monasticism and knighthood, were so typical for the Middle Ages.
The Monks of War
Author: Desmond SewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military religious orders
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages
Author: Frederick Charles WoodhousePublisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781296560935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Author: FREDERICK CHARLES. WOODHOUSEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033143537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Knights of Christ
Author: Terence WisePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780966423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
The ancient warrior code which persisted in medieval Christian Europe dictated that a man's greatest virtues were physical strength, skill at arms, bravery, daring, loyalty to the chieftain and solidarity within the tribe. The primitive Church had been diametrically opposed to such ideals, however by the early 8th century the Church had grown wealthy, and the Saracen invasions of Spain and France posed a threat to that wealth. The Roman Church began to support war in defence of the faith, and by channelling the martial spirit into the service of God, the brutal warrior of the past was transformed into a guardian of society.