Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twenty Century

 This book, the fourth volume in the series “Rewriting the Middle Ages”, focuses on the crusades and military orders. It collects historiographical reflections on 20th century medievalists who devoted at least part of their academic career to these questions. The essays presented here centred on history and art history in order to show the importance of crusading and these institutions in the Mediterranean and Europe during the Middle Ages. Thus, confluence of new cultural ideals, socioeconomic conditions and military and political challenges laid the foundation for the extraordinary movement, known as crusades, especially towards the Holy Land, among other regions. Furthermore, this was accompanied by the deployment of military orders: especially during the 12th and 13th centuries, that remained as important institutions in Europe. The Crusades meant a change in the military activity and political, social, and economic organisation backing one of the most significant expansions in medieval Europe, with the Iberian Peninsula and Eastern Europe among its key theatres. Moreover, the military orders received an extraordinary amount of donations all over Europe, the administration of which forced the development of an efficient system of communication and organization, which could be regarded as highly modern.

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Introduction

Carlos Barquero Goñi, Joseph Delaville Le Roulx

Folker Reichert, Carl Erdmann (1898–1945)

Paul Srodecki, In the Shadows of Tradition. Hans Eberhard Mayer’s Approach to Crusade History

Judith Bronstein, On the Military Orders, the Latin East and the Crusades. Jonathan Riley-Smith, Academic Trajectory and Historiographical Heritage

Maria Bonet Donato and Paula Pinto Costa, Anthony Luttrell (1932–2021)

Sophia Menache, Memory and History. On the Steps of Joshua Prawer

Adrian J. Boas, Benjamin Z. Kedar

Gérard Dédéyan, Une union tumultueuse, mais réelle au regard de Jean Richard. Église arménienne et Église romaine (XIIIe–XVe siècle)

Damien Carraz, Laurent Dailliez (1936–1991), itinéraire d’un intellectuel précaire

Julia Pavón and María Isabel Ostolaza, Santos A. García Larragueta (1927–2004). Palaeographer and Diplomatist, and Pioneer in the Study of Military Orders in Spain

Paula Pinto Costa and Cristina Pimenta, Research on the Medieval Military Orders in Portugal. A School Created by L. Adão da Fonseca

Lisa Mahoney, Jaroslav Folda, N. Ferebee Taylor Professor emeritus. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Short Bio of the Authors