The military religious orders of the Middle Ages : the Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic knights, and others
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The Larmenius Charter is easily the most controversial artifact of the modern Templar movement. As the only purported line of documented continuation from the historical Order of the Knights Templar, it was supposedly written or... more
The dissertation, titled La committenza artistica dei Templari e degli Ospitalieri in Emilia Romagna, tries, through a multidisciplinary approach, to reconstruct the artistic heritage of two monastic and chivalrous Orders in the region.... more
Nicholas of Hohenstein (1350-1420) - he studied in Vienna. From around 1370, he was in Gdańsk. Here, as the first chaplain, he founded Elendenhof (refuge for the poor). In 1390 he made a pilgrimage with Dorothea of Montau to Rome. After... more
Estudi del primer mestre provincial de l'Orde del Temple de Provença, Llanguedoc, Catalunya i Aragó; també, de l'organització, consolidació i expansió de la institució en els seus inicis en els territoris de la província templera.
... der Entwicklung des Deutschen Ordens im Mittelalter', in: ZH Nowak, ed., Ritterorden und Region ... Würzburg, 1958) 255-271; idem, 'Die inneren Wandlungen des Deutschen Ritterordens', in: Geschichte ... 11... more
n the period of the Middle Ages the special role in the religious life both of eastern and western Christians played the relics. Their cult was one of the characteristic attributes of the cult of saints. The relics were strictly connected... more
Les notions de « territoires » et de « réseaux » offrent quelque pertinence pour décrire l’implantation des établissements hospitaliers. Il s’agit donc de réfléchir aux territoires tels qu’ils furent appropriés, aménagés et « représentés... more
The article presents two stages of secularization of the Teutonic order’s holdings in the Baltic States. The first stage was carried out in 1525 by the Grand Master of Prussia, Albrecht of Brandenburg- Ansbach, and the second — in 1561 in... more
In 2016, during the repairing of a wall in the churchyard of San Fermo Maggiore in Verona, an imposing sarcophagus was discovered. Made of sandstone quarried in the nearby hills, the badly flaked tomb bears illegible inscriptions but also... more
The article is devoted to the commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in Łagów, from its establishment in the 1350s to the end of the 1530s. By means of detailed analysis of sources, utilisation of a wide range of research methods and... more
Rafał Kubicki (University of Gdańsk) Water mills and rural settlement in the Dominion of the Teutonic Order in Prussia The study is devoted to the closer discussion of the issue of location, economic function and the legal status of... more
The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 to provide medical care for crusaders in the kingdom of Jerusalem. In time, it assumed a military role and played an important part in the defence of the Christian territories in the Eastern... more
Favreau Robert. Rafaël Hyacinthe. — L'ordre de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem au Moyen Âge. Millau, Conservatoire Larzac templier et hospitalier, 2003 (Milites Christi, 1). In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 48e année (n°190), Avril-juin... more
The first military order in Livonia, founded in 1202 in order to supply the Christian mission with a stable and local military force in addition to the coming and going of seasonal crusaders. In its short history, it was defeated in... more
This article will analyze the context offered by Peter of Dusburg, a brethren of the Teutonic Order, who wrote in 1326 in Prussia one of the most important descriptions of the history of the Teutonic Order - 'Chronicon Terrae Prussiae'.... more
The rule of the order of the Temple took a traditional monastic attitude towards women, being strongly antifeminine in tone, and seeing women as contaminating the brothers. However, the evidence discussed in this article suggests that the... more
Little two-page presentation about the Knights Templar and their military prowess. Full Spanish and English translations are in the book's rear pages.
Parmi les rares épisodes légendaires liés à la présence des Hospitaliers de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem dans l'île de Rhodes, le récit du combat entre Dorde de Gozon et le dragon est de loin le plus célèbre. Popularisée au XVIIIe... more
In October 1307, by order of Philip IV of France, all the Knights Templar within the French domains were arrested. In November, Pope Clement V sent out orders for the arrest of the Templars throughout Europe. The brothers were accused of... more
Matthew Paris is one of the best known and most controversial of medieval historians. A Benedictine monk, he was chronicler of St. Alban‘s Abbey from around 1236 until his death in 1259. The aim of this article is to examine Matthew’s... more
This call for chapters to contribute to a book about the 1522 siege of Rhodes is now closed. The book is scheduled to be published by Routledge in 2022, to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the siege.
Recommended to read "Re-Examining the Larmenius Charter" in addition to this. The Charter of Larmenius has not been considered a reliable historical document regarding a legitimate line of descent of the Knights Templar for nearly 200... more
1099. Era una sera di giugno quando, all’inizio di un’estate inevitabilmente torrida e alla fine di un percorso intrapreso tre anni prima, i crociati cominciarono a prendere d’assalto Gerusalemme. Gerardo stava in città. Da ospedaliere,... more
The Practical and Symbolic Dimensions of Edged Weapons for the Hospitallers 1530-1798 Whether as weapons, status symbols, or metaphoric representations; swords capture the imagination today as much as they did in the past. For the... more
The Syrian coast and the mountains facing the coastal plan, the Jebel al-Anwariye, from the Lebanese border to Mount Casius
The obstacles to the interpretation of the Ukrainian folk painting “Cossack Mamay” are caused by the researchers’ views of the Cossacks phenomenon, inherited from Soviet historiography. To my mind the main reason for a rather poetic than... more
The Green Knight was a character featured in the classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century) and its derivative The Green Knight (c. 1500). This knight came into Arthur’s hall and asked any one of his knights to... more