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Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders - New Studies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders - New Studies (Hardcover, New Ed)
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As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were
driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled
monastic needs as well as military requirements and, in addition,
residential and representational purposes. Growing affluence and an
international orientation provided a wide range of development
potential. That this potential was in fact exploited may be
exemplified by the advanced fortifications erected by Templars and
Hospitallers in the Levant. Although the history of the Military
Orders has been the subject of research for a long time, their
material legacy has attracted less attention. In recent years,
however, a vast range of topics concerning the Orders' building
activities has become the object of investigation, primarily with
the help of archaeology. They comprise the choice of sites and
building materials, provision and storage of food and water,
aspects of the daily life, the design and layout of commanderies,
churches and fortifications, their spatial arrangement, and the
role these buildings played in their environmental context. This
volume contains ten articles discussing the archaeology and
architecture of buildings erected by the three major Military
Orders in different geographical regions. They cover most countries
of Western Europe and include a number of important fortifications
in the Levant. These studies break new ground in the investigation
of the built fabric of the Military Orders. Written by noted
international scholars this publication is an important
contribution to modern research on these institutions, which, in
their association of monasticism and knighthood, were so typical
for the Middle Ages.
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