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" Most general and regional studies of the Templars contain little comment on provincial chapters. This is hardly surprising. Although ...

A series of revolutions in economic and political life transformed Northern Europe. Technology (tools) drove the process, and it was the ent...

"It might be surprising to imagine that the societies of the medieval Mediterranean were brimming with diversity.  (...) Linguistic and...

"Peter the Venerable (c. 1092 – 25 December 1156) was between 1122 and 1156 abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny. Despite his activ...

" During the ninth and tenth centuries the church had become deeply involved in secular affairs. 

At the beginning of the eleventh century France was the only feudal state in Europe. (...) Actually France was not a single state but an all...

" The concepts of diversity and multiculturalism seem, in many respects, to be associated with modernity. However, linguistic and relig...

" How were Saracens depicted from 1200-1420, and what can this tell modern scholars about the way that western artists and audiences vi...

" The sixth century marked the beginning of the Dark Ages in western Europe. While the Byzantine Empire generally prospered, despite ...

The communal organization of the "lesser men", the middle classes, revealed itself in their crusades, which took now the character...

" (It were) loans by which crusaders perhaps most commonly financed their journeys. They borrowed from kings and princes, from monas...

" The Middle Ages were not only a period of European civilization. There was the western medieval period and that of the Eastern Empi...

The contradictory trends in Islamic civilization - social strife and political divisions versus expanding trading links and intellectual ...

The journal Ordines Militares Colloquia Torunensia Historica follows a fifteen-volume book series containing papers from international con...