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The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders (Arkana)
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by Desmond Seward
Sales Rank: 84987
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List Price: $17.00
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Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
Published by: Penguin Non-Classics March 1, 1996
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0140195017
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0140195019
Book Dimensions:
7.7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 11.4 ounces
From Library Journal
Seward's 1972 title profiles military religious orders that emerged during the Crusades. This revised edition brings the information up-to-date.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
We Americans don't really stray far from Western Europe in our knowledge of history. But from its very beginnings, Islam presented a clear and palpable threat to the West. Spain had already succumbed, and France was threatened by the Moors. Most shocking, the Holy Land was occupied by Turks. (Think of the response if we were to occupy Mecca and Medina!) Europe responded by the Crusades, about which we know a little, and with the military monastic orders such as the Knights Templar and Knights of St John Hospitaller, about whom we know next to nothing. These were men who lived a monastic (or at least semi-monastic) life and who acted as Christendom's shock troops in the war against the Saracen. The Crusader kingdoms of the Middle East finally fell after 300 years of constant strife, but the idea caught on in Spain in the drive to expel the Moors and in Prussia against the surrounding Northern Slav Pagans. Perhaps the most stirring tale Seward tells is of the strife between the Knights of St John, having been expelled by the Turks from Rhodes, recovering brilliantly in the siege of Malta in 1565. After demolishing a force of 30,000 with only 6,000 men, the Knights ever after became known as the Knights of Malta. Other reviewers have complained that this is a difficult book. It has to be: Almost a thousand years are covered, not to mention a score of countries. Think of it as a very dense appetizer to lead you further into what is surely one of the most exciting epochs of our history.
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