Forty papers link the study of the military orders’ cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fifteen countries on a kaleidoscope of relevant themes and issues, thus offering a broad-ranging and at the same time very detailed study of the subject.
Forty papers link the study of the military orders’ cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fif
Introduction (Jonathan Riley-Smith)
Nikolas Jaspert (University of Heidelberg), Military Orders at the frontier:
Permeability and demarcation
Philippe Josserand (University of Nantes), Frontier conflict, military cost
and culture: The Master of Santiago and the Islamic border in mid-fourteenth
century Spain
Xavier Baecke (Ghent Univeristy), The symbolic power of spiritual knighthood:
Discourse and context of the donation of Count Thierry dAlsace to the
Templar Order in county of Flanders
Damien Carraz (University of Clermont-Ferrand), Pragmatic literacy, archival
memory, and conflicts in Provence
Karl Borchardt (MGH, Munich), Conflicts and codices: The example of Clm 4620,
A collection about the Hospitallers
Simon Phillips (University of Cyprus), Conflicts within the culture of the
Hospitaller Order
Nicole Hamonic (University of South Dakota), Founding and financing perpetual
chantries at Clerkenwell Priory, 1242-1404
Christie Majoros-Dunnahoe (University of Cardiff), Re-examining the function
of the houses of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England
Anthony Delarue (Rome), The use of the double-traversed cross in the English
priory of the Order of St John
Helen Nicholson (University of Cardiff), The Templars estates in the west of
Britain in the early fourteenth century
Julia Baldo-Alcoz (University of Navarra), Defensive elements in the Templar
and Hospitaller preceptories of the Priory of Navarre
Luís Adão da Fonseca & Maria Cristina Pimenta (CEPESE), The Commandary of
Noudar of the
Jochen Schenk (PhD Cantab) was a lecturer of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. His recent publications include Templar Families. Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, c.11201312. He is also the author of a number of articles dealing, mainly, with the Order of the Temples social structure, the Templars religious life, and the military orders contribution to state building in the Latin East. He is currently working on a cultural history of the crusader states.
Mike Carr (PhD London) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His first monograph, Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean, 12911352, was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2015. He has published articles on his main interests, which include relations between Latins, Greeks and Turks in the eastern Mediterranean, the crusades, maritime history and the papacy. He is also the co-editor of the volume Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 12041453, with Nikolaos Chrissis (Ashgate, 2014).
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