The Military Orders Volume II

Nearly nine centuries after their first appearance, caring for pilgrims in hospices and protecting them from attack on the road, Military Orders continue to play a variety of social and charitable roles today. This collection of thirty-three papers from the second international conference on the Military Orders, contributed by scholars from Europe, the Middle East and the United States, reflects a variety of concerns, but the focus is very much on the beginnings of the Military Orders and their heyday at the time of the Crusades.The subject matter reflects the Military Ordersa (TM) wide-ranging activities, dealing with topics such as medieval hospital care, crusading in the Middle East, warfare in Lithuania, piracy in the Mediterranean, castles in Bohemia, the Reformation in Switzerland and 17th-century European diplomacy. This volume complements the Proceedings of the very successful first conference, The Military Orders: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick, edited by Malcolm Barber (1994) and now out of print.

Helen Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. Her publications on the Templars include The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (2011), The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314) (2010 with J. Burgtorf and P.F. Crawford) and The Knights Templar: A New History (2001).

J.Riley-Smith; B. Z. Kedar, S.Edgington; C.Toll; P.Mitchell; K. Militzer; B. Demel; K. van Eickels; J. Phillips; D. Pringle; H. Nicholson; S. Ekdahl; S. Menache; A. Luttrell; V. Mallia-Milanes; A. Forey; S. Cerrini; J. Burgtorf; L. Jan and V. Jesensk-y; P. Pinto Costa; A. Pestana de Vasconcelos; F. Karassava-Tsilingiri; J. Sarnowsky; T.M.Vann; L. García-Guijarro Ramos; K. Borchardt; J.A. Mol; J. M. Rodríguez García; M. Barber; 'M. Dupuy; C. Barquero Goñi; C.T. Maier; D. F. Allen; J. Schellakowsky