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The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders
by Seward, Desmond
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140195017
- ISBN 13
- 9780140195019
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About This Item
Penguin Books, 1996-02-29. paperback. Good. 5x0x7. Paperback.Minor wear to page edges and corners. Cover clean.Binding tight. P/O's name in pen on first page, otherwise, No writing, highlighting, or marks in text.From the estate of a smoker.
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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- Bookseller
- Night Heron Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 759383
- Title
- The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders
- Author
- Seward, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140195017
- ISBN 13
- 9780140195019
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996-02-29
- Size
- 5x0x7
- X weight
- 11 oz
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