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Desmond Seward.
The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders; revised edition.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995 (original edn. was 1972).
ISBN 0140195017;
ISBN-13 9780140195019.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 128x196x21mm.
Page count: text 415pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs on the covers, not too severe, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; text pages yellowed with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
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[Publisher’s price £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 303g.

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Contents: Latin Syria 1099-1291; Crusade on the Baltic 1200-1560; Reconquista 1158-1493; Readjustment 1291-1522; Last crusade 1523-1671; Baroque paladins 1571-1789; Survival — against all odds 1789-1995.
Appendices: Orders of St. John in the modern world.

Illustrations: 16 text illustrations & 16 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 6

Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

See also | Military orders | Templars | Hospitallers | Teutonic Knights | Crusades |
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