IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 735: Military Orders Behaving Badly in Britain
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Christie Majoros-Dunnahoe, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jochen Burgtorf, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton |
| Paper 735-a | What the Hospitaller Said to the Bishop (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Daily Life, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 735-b | Safe Sanctuary or Safe Harbour?: Templar and Hospitaller Uses and Abuses of Religious Asylum in England (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Daily Life, Law, Local History |
| Paper 735-c | Cooking the Books: The Report of Philip de Thame and the Extent of Hospitaller Possessions in 14th-Century Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Local History |
| Abstract | From their beginnings in the late 11th century, the military orders grew in size and influence, gaining land and special privileges in the West to aid their activities in the East. Successive waves of rules and statutes provided frameworks for the growth of these ever larger orders and provided a means by which those houses furtherest from the administrative centres would be maintained. This session will investigate the success of these attempts at cohesion through the examination of the administration of the orders' houses in Britain, their use of special privileges, and their relationships with their ecclesiastical neighbours. |