Bøger af Mike Carr

This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic. Whilst the crusades are an immensely popular topic, those launched against Christian rulers and communities have been comparatively overlooked in the past, with existing studies typically focusing on a particular area, period, or campaign. This volume brings together the expertise of thirteen scholars on a variety of primary and secondary sources not often accessible to Anglophone readership, as well as their knowledge of national discourses which have often shaped historiography. It aims to serve as the first port of call for anyone who wishes to approach crusades against Christians within and without the specialism of crusader studies, and to provide the basis for a thorough comparative analysis of this phenomenon, covering its variety as comprehensively as possible.

Mike Carr supports bioregional values and community-building tools for a diverse, democratic, socially-just civil society.

This work covers the history of those orders which combined religion and caring with military prowess. Among the orders covered: are the Hospitallers of St John; the Templars; the Teutonic order; and the Spanish. The book also discusses the perceptions and roles of the military orders.

Records the proceedings of the Fifth Conference in 2009. This title deals with the archaeological investigations at the Hospitaller castle at al-Marqab (Syria); and examines aspects of the history of the military orders in the Latin East and the Mediterranean lands, in Spain and Portugal.

Nearly nine centuries after their first appearance, military orders continue to play a variety of social and charitable roles. The 33 papers in this book reflect on the concerns of military orders, focusing on their beginnings and their heyday at the time of the Crusades.

Records the proceedings of the Third Conference of the Military Orders in 2000. This volume contains thirty papers - two deal with the orders in general, while eighteen concentrate on the Hospital of St John, six on the Temple, and three on the Teutonic Order, together with another on the Order of the Sword Brothers which it absorbed.

Features twenty-seven papers that represent a selection of those delivered at the Fourth International Conference on the Military Orders in 2005. This work presents architecture, archaeology and the part which the orders played in Europe, along with work on northern and eastern Europe.