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Ecclesiastical Knights - The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330 (Hardcover)
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Ecclesiastical Knights - The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330 (Hardcover)
Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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"Warrior monks"-the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that
emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century-have long
fascinated general readers and professional historians alike.
Proposing "ecclesiastical knights" as a more accurate name and
conceptual model-warriors animated by ideals and spiritual currents
endorsed by the church hierarchy-author Sam Zeno Conedera presents
a groundbreaking study of how these orders brought the seemingly
incongruous combination of monastic devotion and the practice of
warfare into a single way of life. Providing a detailed study of
the military-religious vocation as it was lived out in the Orders
of Santiago, Calatrava, and Alcantara in Leon-Castile during the
first century, Ecclesiastical Knights provides a valuable window
into medieval Iberia. Filling a gap in the historiography of the
medieval military orders, Conedera defines, categorizes, and
explains these orders, from their foundations until their spiritual
decline in the early fourteenth century, arguing that that the best
way to understand their spirituality is as a particular kind of
consecrated knighthood. Because these Iberian military orders were
belligerents in the Reconquest, Ecclesiastical Knights informs
important discussions about the relations between Western
Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages. Conedera examines how
the military orders fit into the religious landscape of medieval
Europe through the prism of knighthood, and how their unique
conceptual character informed the orders and spiritual
self-perception. The religious observances of all three orders were
remarkably alike, except that the Cistercian-affiliated orders were
more demanding and their members could not marry. Santiago,
Calatrava, and Alcantara shared the same essential mission and
purpose: the defense and expansion of Christendom understood as an
act of charity, expressed primarily through fighting and
secondarily through the care of the sick and the ransoming of
captives. Their prayers were simple and their penances were aimed
at knightly vices and the preservation of military discipline.
Above all, the orders valued obedience. They never drank from the
deep wellsprings of monasticism, nor were they ever meant to.
Offering an entirely fresh perspective on two difficult and closely
related problems concerning the military orders-namely, definition
and spirituality-author Sam Zeno Conedera illuminates the religious
life of the orders, previously eclipsed by their military
activities.
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