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The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, 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 Portuguese 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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About the Author
Desmond Seward was born in Paris and educated at Cambridge University. He is the author of Richard III: England's Black Legend, The Monks of War, and The War of the Roses.
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"Undeniably the work of someone who knows and accepts the standards of critical history, but ... who sees the past also as an epic or a colourful spectacle"
—Professor David Knowles in The Times Literary Supplement
"His scholarship is great, his theme both interesting and largely unexplored and his judgment sound"
—Economist
"The book is excellent and firmly based on the primary sources of which Seward has a remarkable grasp."
—New Society
"Compulsive reading, attractively written, and retaining one's fascinated interest throughout"
—Catholic Herald
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- PublisherEyre Methuen Ltd
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0413283801
- ISBN 13 9780413283801
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xi, [3], 346 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Author's Note. Footnotes. Appendix I: Lists of Masters. Appendix II: Key Dates. Appendix III: Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Further Reading. Index. The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve. Desmond Eric Christopher Seward (22 May 1935 - 3 April 2022) was an Anglo-Irish historian and the author of many books, including biographies of Henry IV of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Marie Antoinette, Empress Eugénie and Napoleon's family. He specialized in Britain and France in the late Middle Ages. Desmond Seward was educated at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire and at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He wrote extensively on medieval France and about the military religious orders on which he was considered an authority. Seward was fluent in French and read Italian, Latin, medieval English and Norman French. He was noted for conducting research on primary sources at relevant foreign locations, and wrote historically-oriented travel books. His work was translated into ten languages, including Hebrew and Japanese. In 2019 Seward produced what was regarded by some critics as one of his best works, The King Over the Water, a history of the Jacobites. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders is the book Seward considered his most important work. It is thought to be the first general history of the Templars, Knights Hospitallers, Teutonic Knights, and other religious orders published since the eighteenth century. The military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's stormtroopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, 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 Portuguese 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. Seller Inventory # 88593
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