The Monks of War The Military Religious Orders (Arkana) Paperback - 1996
by Seward, Desmond
Summary
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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- Title The Monks of War The Military Religious Orders (Arkana)
- Author Seward, Desmond
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2Rev Ed
- Pages 415
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin (Non-Classics), London
- Date March 1, 1996
- ISBN 9780140195019
Media reviews
Professor David Knowles in The Times Literary Supplement
"His scholarship is great, his theme both interesting and largely unexplored and his judgment sound"
Economist
"The book is excellent and firmly based on the primary sources of which Seward has a remarkable grasp."
New Society
"Compulsive reading, attractively written, and retaining one's fascinated interest throughout"
Catholic Herald
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