Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land

by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Book Overview

The Templars and the Hospitallers were the two earliest and most famous of the major Military Orders of the Roman Catholic Church from the early twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century. In this book, Jonathan Riley-Smith attends to the Templars' and Hospitallers' primary role as religious orders, not as military phenomena or economic powerhouses. In a prologue, four chapters, and an epilogue, Riley-Smith discusses the origins of the orders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268040583
• ISBN13: 9780268040581
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"