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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 210: The Military Orders in Britain: Organisation and Administration on the Western Periphery

Monday 7 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:Christie Majoros-Dunnahoe, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Moderator/Chair:Thomas Lecaque, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper 210-aMapping the Scottish Templelands
(Language: English)
Norah Carlin, Independent Scholar, Edinburgh
Paper 210-bYorkshire Outposts of an International Order: Templar Estates at Temple Hirst
(Language: English)
John Lee, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Crusades, Economics - Rural
Paper 210-cKilmainham and Torphichen: Re-Examining the Central Authority of Clerkenwell over the Irish and Scottish Priories of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem
(Language: English)
Christie Majoros-Dunnahoe, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Crusades, Economics - Rural
Abstract

The military orders, international bodies centered in the Holy Land, owned property throughout Western Europe and drew from these houses the resources which funded their activities in the East. This session will examine the orders of the Knights Templar and the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Britain - the farthest western edge of their bureaucratic 'empires' - by exploring the organization and administration of properties at the county level and the shifting hierarchical structures of their properties in Britain in relation to the Orders's central headquarters in the East.