The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (平装)
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品牌: Desmond Seward
基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics) (1996年3月1日)丛书名:Arkana平装:416页正文语种:英语ISBN:0140195017条形码:9780140195019产品尺寸及重量:19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm ; 323 gASIN:0140195017
商品描述内容简介The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic 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'. These military religious orders emerged during the Crusades as Christendom's storm troopers in the savage conflict with Islam. Some of them still exist today, now devoted to charitable works. "The Monks of War" is the first general history of these orders to have appeared since the eighteenth century. Writing in "The Times Literary Supplement", Professor David Knowles described it as, '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'.目录The monks of war. Latin Syria 1099-1291: the birth of a new vocation; the bulwark of Jerusalem; armageddon. The crusade on the Baltic 1200-1560: the crusade on the Baltic; the Ordensland - an army with a country; the crusaders without a cause. The Reconquista 1158-1493: the Reconquista; the great advance; kings and masters; triumph and nemesis. Readjustment 1291-1522: readjustment and the Templar dissolution; Rhodes and the Sea Knights; the three sieges. the last crusade 1523-1571: the battle for the Mediterranean. Baroque paladins 1571-1789. Survival - against all odds 1789-1995.
