Military Orders and Crusades (Collected Studies Series, Cs432)

The emergence of the military order in the twelfth century; Recruitment to the military orders (Twelfth to mid-fourteenth centuries); Novitiate and instruction in the military orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries;; Women and the military orders in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The military orders and the Spanish reconquest in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The military orders and the ransoming of captives from Islam (twelfth to early fourteenth centuries); The military orders and holy war against Christians in the thirteenth century; the military orders in the crusading proposals of the late-thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; The militarisation of the hospital of St John; constitutional conflict and change in the hospital of St John during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; The order of mountjoy; The military order of St Thomas of Acre; The crusading vows of the English King Henry III; Index.