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The Monks Of War: The Military Orders
by Desmond Seward
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Folio Society, 2013. Hardback. Fine. Folio Society sixth printing hardback edition with a new introduction by Fra’ Matthew Festing and an index compiled by Meg Davies, 2013, in a slipcase with no dust jacket as issued. In overall fine, unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text, maps (by Reginald Pigott) and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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
- Hall of Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240295
- Title
- The Monks Of War: The Military Orders
- Author
- Desmond Seward
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion, Theology and Philosophy; History / International; Folio Society;
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