Military Orders and Crusades

Alan Forey, Durham University, UK

• Contents: The emergence of the military order in the twelfth century; Recruitment to the military orders (twelfth to mid-fourteenth centuries); Novitiate and instruction in the military orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; Women and the military orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The military orders and the Spanish reconquest in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The military orders and the ransoming of captives from Islam(twelfth to early fourteenth centuries); The military orders and holy war against Christians in the thirteenth century; the military orders in the crusading proposals of the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries; The militarisation of the hospital of St John; Constitutional conflict and change in the hospital of St John during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The order of Mountjoy; The military order of St Thomas of Acre; The crusading vows of the English King Henry III; Index.

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