The Monks of War; The Military Religious Orders
by Seward, Desmond
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0208012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780208012661
- Seller
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Synopsis
The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtrooopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them stille exist oday, devoted to charitable works. The Monks of War is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. The Templars, the Hospitallers (later Knights of Malta), the Teutonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portugese orders were "noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross." The first properly disciplined Western troops since Roman times, they played a major role in defending the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, in the "Baltic Crusades" which created Prussia, in the long reconquest of Spain from the Moors, and in fighting the "Infidel" right up to Napoleonic times. This celebrated book tells the whole enthralling story, recreating such epics as the sieges of Rhodes and Malta and the destruction of the Templars by the Inquisition. Acclaimed on publication, it has now been revised and updated, with a concluding chapter to take events into the 1990s.
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- Seller
- True Oak Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- HVD-34117-A-0
- Title
- The Monks of War; The Military Religious Orders
- Author
- Seward, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0208012664
- ISBN 13
- 9780208012661
- Publisher
- Archon Books
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- 0208012664
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