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A military order (Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights...

The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against...

Catholic military orders of the Crusades (c. 1099–1291) and paired with medieval concepts of ideals of chivalry. Since the 15th century, orders of chivalry...

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. The best...

after the military orders of the Crusades, requiring its initiates to defend the cross and fight the enemies of Christianity, particularly the Ottoman Empire...

These include the traditional numbered crusades and others that prominent historians have identified as crusades. The scope of the term crusade first referred...

culminating in the idea of crusades for lands claimed for Christianity. Most crusades came from what had been the Carolingian Empire around 800. The empire had...

emerged from the culture of chivalric orders established in the Middle Ages, originally the military orders of the Middle Ages and the Crusades, who in turn...

The historiography of the Crusades is the study of history-writing and the written history, especially as an academic discipline, regarding the military...

ISBN 978-1-503-60252-6. Bom, Myra Miranda (2012). Women in the military orders of the crusades. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-08830-7. OCLC 1058540900...

The role of women in the Crusades is frequently viewed as being limited to domestic or illicit activities during the Crusades. While to some extent this...

the two Military Orders, the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem employed king's Turcoples under the direction of a Grand Turcopolier. The crusaders first...

Crusades of the 15th century are those Crusades that follow the Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399, throughout the next hundred years. In this time period...

The crusading movement encompasses the framework of ideologies and institutions that described, regulated, and promoted the Crusades. The crusades were...

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, and...

(1994). Crusader Castles. Cambridge University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-521-79913-3. Setton, K. M. (1985). A History of the Crusades: The Impact of the Crusades...

enterprise. The military orders of the crusades which developed in this period came to be seen as the earliest flowering of chivalry, and some of their opponents...

Thomas C. Van Cleve, "The Fifth Crusade", in A History of the Crusades (gen. ed. Kenneth M. Setton), vol. 2: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311 (ed. R.L. Wolff...

popular Crusades, Crusades against Christians, political Crusades, the latter parts of the Reconquista, and the Northern Crusades. Crusades were to continue...

of Crusader Castles Military History of the Crusader States Military Orders of the Crusades Recovery of the Holy Land Travelogues of Palestine Barker, Ernest...