The Monks of War: The Military Orders
by Seward, Desmond
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
The Folio Society, 2000. Book. Fine-. Hard Cover with Slipcase. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover with slipcase : fine minus / very good plus. Book: a bit of a vertical extruding crease to spine, otherwise like new. Slipcase with slight wear..
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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- Title
- The Monks of War: The Military Orders
- Author
- Seward, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
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