The Military Orders and their role in Warfare in the Middle Ages
Sources
Contemporary reactions to the foundation of the Templars - added November 24, 2002
Hugh ‘The Sinner’: Letter to the Knights of Christ in the Temple at Jerusalem - added November 24, 2002
Documents Relating to the Baltic Crusade (1199-1266) - added November 24, 2002
Jacques de Vitry: Sermons to a Military Order - added November 24, 2002
Crusade planning in the late thirteenth century - added November 24, 2002
A plan to regain the Holy Land from the Master of the Hospitallers (c.1305) - added August 11, 2002
Articles
Bennett, Matthew, La Régle du Temple as a Military Manual or How to Deliver a Cavalry Charge - from Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. Allen Brown (1989) - added June 9, 2003
Brodman, James William, Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier - from the Library of Iberian Resources Online website
Ekdahl, Sven, Horses and Crossbows: Two Important Warfare Advantages of the Teutonic Order in Prussia - from The Military Orders, Volume 2: Welfare and Warfare (1998) - added November 20, 2002
Gilmour-Bryson, Anne, The Trial of the Templars in Cyprus - from ORB: The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies - added June 3, 2002
Grabois, Aryeh, Militia and Malitia: The Bernardine Vision of Chivalry - from The Second Crusade and the Cistercians (1992) - added July 17, 2002
Nicholson, Helen, Knights of Christ- The Templars, Hospitallers and other military orders in the eyes of their contemporaries, 1128-1291 - from ORB: The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies - added June 3, 2002
Urban, William, The Sense of Humor among the Teutonic Knights of the Thirteenth Century - from Illinois Quarterly v.42(1979) - added October 30, 2002
Urban, William, Victims of the Baltic Crusades - from Journal of Baltic Studies v.29 (1998) - added October 30, 2002
Book Reviews
Encounter between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, by Yvonne Friedman - reviewed by Norman Housley
The Trial of the Templars in Cyprus: A Complete English Edition, translated by Anne Gilmour-Bryson - reviewed by Helen Nicholson
The Knight's Hospitaller, by Helen Nicholson - reviewed by Sophia Menache
Dei Gesta per Francos: Crusade studies in honour of Jean Richard, edited by Michel Balard, Benjamin Z. Kedar and Jonathan Riley-Smith - reviewed by Paul Crawford
The Knights Templar in Britain, by Evelyn Lord - reviewed by Steven Isaac
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