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This new addition to the popular Seminar Studies series looks at the origins, development and organisation of the Military Orders during the twelfth and thirtee

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The emergence of the military order in the twelfth century; Recruitment to the military orders (Twelfth to mid-fourteenth centuries); Novitiate and instruction