The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture

Sponsoring Organization(s)

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History

Organizer Name

Valerie Eads

Organizer Affiliation

School of Visual Arts

Presider Name

L. J. Andrew Villalon

Presider Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 1

Holy Warriors, Worldly War: Military Religious Orders and Secular Conflict

Presenter 1 Name

Helen J. Nicholson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Cardiff Univ.

Paper Title 2

Respondent

Presenter 2 Name

Theresa M. Vann

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Start Date

13-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 210

Description

Addresses the question of how far the military religious orders were involved in secular warfare. Scholars have long argued the Templars, Hospitallers and other military orders kept out of secular warfare. Concludes that they were involved more than modern scholars have been prepared to admit. Military orders, Templars, Hospitallers, 12th - 14th centuries, revisioninst scholarship.

Valerie Eads