Knighthoods of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber

by Housley,Norman; Housley,Norman

• ISBN13: 9780754655275
• ISBN10: 075465527X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

During the Central Middle Ages Catholics had the opportunity to take part in Holy War in the Latin East in two different but related ways, by taking the Cross and by entering the Order of the Temple. Both crusaders and Knights Templar were dubbed by conte

Table of Contents

Preface

Malcolm Barber: an appreciation, Anne Curry

Bibliography of works by Malcolm Barber 1970-2005

The Crusades: Byzantium in western chronicles before the First Crusade

Knowing the enemy: Latin relations with Islam at the time of the First Crusade

Kingship, identity and name-giving in the family of Baldwin of Bourcq

Armenia, Edessa and the Second Crusade

The admirable enemy? Saladin and Saphadin in Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre Sainte

Baldwin of Flanders and Henry of Hainault as military commanders in the Latin Empire of Constantinople

A female physician on the Fourth Crusade? Laurette de Saint-Valéry, Susan B. Edgington

Mounted warrior saints in crusader icons: images of the Knighthoods of

'The common corps of christendom': Thomas More and the crusading cause

The Knights Templar: Belchite, le Temple et Montjoie : la couronne d'Aragon et le Temple au XIIe siècle

The Military Orders and the East, 1149-1291

The old French William of Tyre and the origins of the Templars

The growth of the Order of the Temple in the northern area of the kingdom of Valencia at the close of the 13th century: a puzzling development?

The career of a Templar: Peter of St Just

Relations between houses of the Order of the Temple in Britain and their local communities, as indicated during the trial of the Templars, 1307-12

Italian Templar trials: truth or falsehood?

The last Master of the Temple: James of Molay

Index

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