The Monks of War: The Military Orders
de Seward, Desmond
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: The Folio Society, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black buckram, illus. in gold foil and red-orange. As issued, though lacking slipcase. xvi,338 pp., illus..
Sinopsis
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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- Saucony Book Shop
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 065320
- Título
- The Monks of War: The Military Orders
- Autor
- Seward, Desmond
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- N/A
- Edición
- First Thus
- Editorial
- The Folio Society
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Military History; Medieval & Renaissance Studies;
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