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Article: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights: Images of the Military Orders, 1128-1291.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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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 the Holy Land from Muslim attack, over the course of the twelfth and ...