1st Edition

The Modern Memory of the Military-religious Orders Engaging the Crusades, Volume Seven

Edited By Rory MacLellan Copyright 2023
130 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume examines the pervasive and persistent appropriations of the military orders across a broad chronology and several regions, including Mexico, Brazil, and Greece, areas beyond the traditional focus of prior research in medievalism. Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights, the military orders are among the most iconic aspects of the crusades and several still survive as chivalric... Read more

Introduction

Rory MacLellan

1. Memories of the Military Orders in Britain in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Rory MacLellan

2. Rosslyn Chapel: Templar Pseudo-history, ‘Symbology’, and the Far-right

Lizzie Swarbrick

3. Acquiring Heritage: The Venerable Order of St John and the Accumulation of its Past (1858-1931)

Nigel Hankin

4. Reconstructing the Past: The Memory and Tradition of the Order of the Hospitaller Knights of St John in Modern Greece (19th-20th Centuries)

Photeine Perra

5. Taking the Cross and Asserting Freedom: Catholic Liberalism, the Military Orders, and the Perception of the Crusades in Mexico in the first half of the 19th Century

Ignacio Garcia Lascurain Bernstorff

6. The Internet Crusade Against Communism: Political neomedievalism in 21st century Brazil

Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra

Biography

Rory MacLellan is a postdoctoral research fellow at Historic Royal Palaces. He specialises in medieval religious history, especially the crusades and the military-religious orders. His first book is Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291–1400 (2021).