The Historian, September 22nd, 1994
In the present, as in the medieval past, physical violence in the name of a higher cause holds a dire fascination; the rhetoric of the crusade continues both to attract and repel in a variety of global contexts. This book is a modest and sober study of medieval attitudes towards sped" in holy war, the so-called military orders.
Founded in the early twelfth century after the first crusaders had captured Jerusalem from Islam, these orders were brotherhoods of fighting laymen vowed to a devout and obedient life of poverty and celibacy. Their goal was initially to defend Christian pilgrims to t...
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