On the margins of crusading

Founded to support Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and most famous for their support for crusading, the Military Religious Orders' activities and interests stretched far beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Representing some of the most recent advances in research, in this volume eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore important and hitherto under-researched aspects of the Orders' history, scrutinizing their relations with the papacy, their organisational structure, their devotional practices, their fortresses and their presence in the localities of Western Europe.