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Queen Sybil of Jerusalem, queen in her own right, was ruler of the
kingdom of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. Her reign saw the loss of
the city of Jerusalem to Saladin, and the beginning of the Third
Crusade. Her reign began with her nobles divided and crisis
looming; by her death the military forces of Christian Europe were
uniting with her and her husband, intent on recovering what had
been lost. Sybil died before the bulk of the forces of the Third
Crusade could arrive in the kingdom, and Jerusalem was never
recovered. But although Sybil failed, she went down fighting –
spiritually, even if not physically. This study traces Sybil’s
life, from her childhood as the daughter of the heir to the throne
of Jerusalem to her death in the crusading force outside the city
of Acre. It sets her career alongside that of other European queens
and noblewomen of the twelfth century who wielded or attempted to
wield power and ask how far the eventual survival of the kingdom of
Jerusalem in 1192 was due to Sybil’s leadership in 1187 and her
determination never to give up.
Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval
military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered
explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her
account is comprehensive. An attractive volume. HISTORY This short
study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes
and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an
introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as
well as the interested general reader. Beginning with a
consideration of the origins of the Order as a hospice for pilgrims
in Jerusalem in the eleventh century, it traces the Hospitaller's
development into a military order during the first part of the
twelfth century, and its military activities on the frontiers of
Christendom in the eastern Mediterranean, Spain and eastern Europe
during the middle ages and into early modern period: its role in
crusades and in wars against non-Christians on land and at sea, as
well as its role in building and maintaining fortresses. It also
considers the Order's activities away from the frontiers of
Christendom: its economic activities and its relations with patrons
and rulers throughout Europe, as well as its hospitaller work and
its religious life. The focus of the study is on the medieval
period down to the loss of Rhodes in 1522, but the final chapters
of the book consider the Order'shistory on Malta from the sixteenth
to the end of the eighteenth century, and from the loss of Malta in
1798 to the present day. HELEN NICHOLSON is Senior Lecturer in
History, Cardiff University.
This book pays homage to the work of a scholar who has
substantially advanced knowledge and understanding of the medieval
military-religious orders. Alan J. Forey has published over seventy
meticulously researched articles on every aspect of the
military-religious orders, two books on the Templars in the Corona
de Aragon, and a wide-ranging survey of the military-religious
orders from the twelfth to the early fourteenth centuries. His
archival research has been especially significant in opening up the
history of the military orders in the Iberian Peninsula. This
volume comprises an appreciation of Forey's work and a range of
research that has been inspired by his scholarship or develops
themes that run through his work. Articles reflect Forey's detailed
research into and analysis of primary sources, as well as his work
on the military orders, the crusades, the eastern Mediterranean,
and the trial of the Templars. Further papers move beyond the
geographical and chronological bounds of Forey's research, while
still exploring his themes of the military-religious orders'
relations with the Church and State.
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A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric
culture. Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle
Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition.
More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary
tastes, art and manners, as well as social hierarchies, political
events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere. This work
aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject.
Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range
of areas: the tournament, arms and armour, the chivalric society's
organisation in peace and war, its literature and its landscape.
They also consider the gendered nature of chivalry, its propensity
for violence, and its post-medieval decline and reinvention in the
early modern and modern periods. It will be invaluable to the
student and the scholar of chivalry alike. ROBERT W. JONES is a
Visiting Scholar in History, Franklin and Marshall College; PETER
COSS is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University
Contributors: Richard Barber, Joanna Bellis, Matthew Bennett, Sam
Claussen, Peter Coss, Oliver Creighton, David Green, Robert W.
Jones, Megan G. Leitch, Ralph Moffat, Helen J. Nicholson, Clare
Simmons, David Simpkin, Peter Sposato, Louise J. Wilkinson, Matthew
Woodcock
This volume celebrates Peter Edbury's career by bringing together
seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which
focus on three of his major research interests: the great historian
of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his Historia
rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum and its continuations;
medieval Cyprus, in particular under the Lusignans; and the
Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research,
the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts,
ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century
to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of
language and terminology in William of Tyre's chronicle and its
continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial
investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization,
and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a
foreword written by Peter Edbury's PhD supervisor, Jonathan
Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter's own publications by
Christopher Tyerman.
This volume brings together recent and new research, with several
items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the
largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the
Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. In recent years there has been
increasing scholarly interest in women's religious houses during
the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the problems which they
faced and the social needs which they performed. The
military-religious orders have been largely excluded from this
interest, partly because it has been assumed that women played
little role in religious orders with a predominantly military
purpose. Recent research has shown this to be a misconception.
Study of the women members of these orders enables scholars to gain
a deeper appreciation of the nature of hospitaller and military
orders and of the role of women in religious life in general. The
papers in this volume explore the roles which the Hospitaller
sisters performed within their order; examine the problems of
having men and women living within the same or adjoining houses;
study relations between the order and the patrons of its women's
houses; and consider the career of a prominent Hospitaller woman
who became a saint. This volume will be of interest not only to
scholars of the military-religious orders and of the Hospital of St
John in particular, but also to scholars of monastic history and to
those with a concern for women's history during the middle ages.
This is a translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta
Regis Ricardi, a contemporary chronicle of the Third Crusade,
1187-1192. Told from the viewpoint of the European crusaders, it
recounts the fall of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem to Saladin
in 1187 and the subsequent expeditions to recover it, led by the
Emperor Frederick I, King Philip II of France and King Richard I of
England, the Lionheart". This is the most comprehensive account of
the crusade. Much of the account is from eyewitness sources and
provides vivid and colourful details of the great campaigns. The
translator gives background details of the events described,
comparing this account with other accounts from Europe, the
Christians of the Holy Land and Muslim writers. She also sets out
the evidence for the authorship and sources of the chronicle.
This volume celebrates Peter Edbury's career by bringing together
seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which
focus on three of his major research interests: the great historian
of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his Historia
rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum and its continuations;
medieval Cyprus, in particular under the Lusignans; and the
Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research,
the contributions to this volume include new work on manuscripts,
ranging from a Hospitaller rental document of the twelfth century
to a seventeenth-century manuscript of Cypriot interest; studies of
language and terminology in William of Tyre's chronicle and its
continuations; thematic surveys; legal and commercial
investigations pertaining to Cyprus; aspects of memorialization,
and biographical studies. These contributions are bracketed by a
foreword written by Peter Edbury's PhD supervisor, Jonathan
Riley-Smith, and an appreciation of Peter's own publications by
Christopher Tyerman.
In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious Order of
the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King
Philip IV and charged with heresy. In November, Pope Clement V
instructed King Edward II of England to do likewise. This volume
provide the first full translation of the four surviving texts of
the trial proceedings that followed in Britain and Ireland,
complementing the edition published in volume 1. The trial of the
Templars was the first major heresy trial in the British Isles, and
the proceedings reveal the Episcopate's attempts to deal with this
unprecedented situation, the varying procedures followed in
different countries, and how testimonies were recorded and
summarised for the Church Councils which eventually decided the
fate of the Order of the Temple. The testimonies given during the
trial contain a wealth of information about religious beliefs among
the lay population of the British Isles (both the Templars and
outsiders who gave evidence during the trial), national and
international mobility of lay religious, the social function of the
order of the Temple in the British Isles and its relations with
society at large, and the organisation and operations of the Order
of the Temple at a local, national and international level.
Detailed introductions to each volume describe the manuscripts and
how the material was compiled and arranged, and discuss the course
of the proceedings and the value of the evidence they contain.
Appendices in this volume also list the names of all the Templars
mentioned during the proceedings, Templar houses and the locations
of the proceedings in London.
The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer
support, their active participation, and their inspiration... This
book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the
second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first
proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians
of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was
captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not
only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders,
supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and
as both defenders and aggressors. It argues that medieval women
were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could
play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were
dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although
its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at
the impact of the crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western
Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations
between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims
and other Christian groups.
This book pays homage to the work of a scholar who has
substantially advanced knowledge and understanding of the medieval
military-religious orders. Alan J. Forey has published over seventy
meticulously researched articles on every aspect of the
military-religious orders, two books on the Templars in the Corona
de Aragon, and a wide-ranging survey of the military-religious
orders from the twelfth to the early fourteenth centuries. His
archival research has been especially significant in opening up the
history of the military orders in the Iberian Peninsula. This
volume comprises an appreciation of Forey's work and a range of
research that has been inspired by his scholarship or develops
themes that run through his work. Articles reflect Forey's detailed
research into and analysis of primary sources, as well as his work
on the military orders, the crusades, the eastern Mediterranean,
and the trial of the Templars. Further papers move beyond the
geographical and chronological bounds of Forey's research, while
still exploring his themes of the military-religious orders'
relations with the Church and State.
First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation
in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main
church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in
London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one
of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round
nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is
extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture
with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any
English building of its period. It also holds one of the most
famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major
developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of
the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial
restoration programme in the early 1840s. Despite its extraordinary
importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or
critical attention, a gap that is remedied by this volume. It
considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle Ages, and
allaspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth
century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated
with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use
of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material
available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster
casts. Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip
Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William
Whyte, Christopher Wilson. Robin Griffith-Jones is Master of the
Temple at the Temple Church; David Park is a Professor at the
Courtauld Institute of Art.
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A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric
culture. Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle
Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition.
More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary
tastes, art and manners, as well as socialhierarchies, political
events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere. This work
aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject.
Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range
of areas: the tournament, arms and armour, the chivalric society's
organisation in peace and war, its literature and its landscape.
They also consider the gendered nature of chivalry, its propensity
for violence, and its post-medieval decline and reinvention in the
early modern and modern periods. It will be invaluable to the
student and the scholar of chivalry alike. ROBERT W. JONES is a
Visiting Scholar in History, Franklin and Marshall College; PETER
COSS is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Cardiff University
Contributors: Richard Barber, Joanna Bellis, Matthew Bennett, Sam
Claussen, Peter Coss, Oliver Creighton, David Green, Robert W.
Jones, Megan G. Leitch, Ralph Moffat, Helen J. Nicholson, Clare
Simmons, David Simpkin, Peter Sposato, Louise J. Wilkinson, Matthew
Woodcock
The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate
its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for
scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval
Warfare This volume focuses on two of the most vibrant areas of
research in the field: Crusader studies and the warfare of the Late
Middle Ages, embracing a diversity of approaches. Chapters look at
the battle of Tell Bashir (1108) in thecontext of Saljuq politics;
the defenses of 'Altit castle, one of the Templars' strongest
fortifications, from an archaeological perspective; the involvement
of the Military Orders in secular conflicts, particularly in
Europe; and how royal women affected and were affected by the wars
of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in the fourteenth century.
Fencing competitions are used to explore masculinity and status in
Strasbourg from the late Middle Ages into the early modern period,
and key aspects of the actual conduct of warfare in the fifteenth
century come under detailed scrutiny: the role of cavalry in
turning the Hundred Years War in favour of the French, and the
logistical and procurement difficulties and methods involved in
fielding a Florentine army in 1498. The volume is completed with a
translation and discussion of Guillaume Guiart's rich description
of a French royal army on the march and in camp atthe start of the
fourteenth century. Contributors: Fabrizio Ansani, Drew Bolinger,
Oliver Dupuis, Ehud Galili, Michael Harbinson, Donald J. Kagay,
Michael Livingston, Ken Mondschein, Helen J. Nicholson, Avrahem
Ronen,Andrew L.J. Villalon
This is a translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta
Regis Ricardi, a contemporary chronicle of the Third Crusade,
1187-1192. Told from the viewpoint of the European crusaders, it
recounts the fall of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem to Saladin
in 1187 and the subsequent expeditions to recover it, led by the
Emperor Frederick I, King Philip II of France and King Richard I of
England, the Lionheart". This is the most comprehensive account of
the crusade. Much of the account is from eyewitness sources and
provides vivid and colourful details of the great campaigns. The
translator gives background details of the events described,
comparing this account with other accounts from Europe, the
Christians of the Holy Land and Muslim writers. She also sets out
the evidence for the authorship and sources of the chronicle.
The Knights Templar did not write about themselves, or keep
diaries, so you would be forgiven for thinking there would not be
much to know about their everyday lives. However, the records of
the Templars' estates tell us how they lived-from the buildings
they lived in and their furnishings, to the books and ornaments in
their chapels, and their clothes and crockery. These early
fourteenth-century records tell us about the men and women who
worked for the Templars on their lands and in their houses, their
tenants, and the people who owed them money. We can see what
animals they kept, from fine warhorses to hard-working plough
animals, alongside cattle, pigs, and vast flocks of sheep. Drawing
on these records, along with archaeological evidence and the
Templars' own regulations, Helen Nicholson sets out to reconstruct
how the Templars lived from day to day, in both the Middle East and
Western Europe. The result is a fascinating insight into the
everyday lives of these pious men, who were not powerful nobles or
churchmen, yet held great influence in medieval Europe.
With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness,
the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami
Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the
vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global
dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of
Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity
with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary,
multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision
and legacy in the way that this volume does. It brings together
North American, European, British, and Indian scholars associated
with a broad array of humanistic disciplines towards
critical-constructive, contextually-sensitive reflections on one of
the most important thinkers and theologians of the modern era.
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