The Military Orders: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The Military Orders: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick. Edited by Malcolm Barber. (Brookfield, Vermont:: Variorum,, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1994. Pp. xxviii, 399. $99.50.)

This volume is made up of forty-one papers read at a conference on the Military Orders held at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London, in September, 1992. The editor, Malcolm Barber, is to be congratulated for the way in which he has given to this collection a coherence rarely achieved in works of this kind. Fourteen contributions relate to the Knights of St. John, eight to the Templars, seven to the ...

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