Books in the The Military Orders series

Records the proceedings of the Third Conference of the Military Orders in 2000. This volume contains thirty papers - two deal with the orders in general, while eighteen concentrate on the Hospital of St John, six on the Temple, and three on the Teutonic Order, together with another on the Order of the Sword Brothers which it absorbed.

Features twenty-seven papers that represent a selection of those delivered at the Fourth International Conference on the Military Orders in 2005. This work presents architecture, archaeology and the part which the orders played in Europe, along with work on northern and eastern Europe.

Nearly nine centuries after their first appearance, military orders continue to play a variety of social and charitable roles. The 33 papers in this book reflect on the concerns of military orders, focusing on their beginnings and their heyday at the time of the Crusades.

Records the proceedings of the Fifth Conference in 2009. This title deals with the archaeological investigations at the Hospitaller castle at al-Marqab (Syria); and examines aspects of the history of the military orders in the Latin East and the Mediterranean lands, in Spain and Portugal.

This work covers the history of those orders which combined religion and caring with military prowess. Among the orders covered: are the Hospitallers of St John; the Templars; the Teutonic order; and the Spanish. The book also discusses the perceptions and roles of the military orders.

This volume contains papers from the fifth conference on the military orders held in London. It deals with the archaeological investigations at the Hospitaller castle at al-Marqab and examines aspects of the history of the military orders in the Latin East and the Mediterranean lands.