Modern Memory of the Military-religious Orders

<p>This volume examines the pervasive and persistent appropriations of the military orders across a broad chronology and several regions including Mexico Brazil and Greece areas beyond the traditional focus of prior research in medievalism.</p><p>Templars Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights the military orders are among the most iconic aspects of the crusades and several still survive as chivalric honours or charitable organisations. In popular culture the orders particularly the Templars have been the subject of or inspiration for films books television and video games from <i>Star Wars</i> to <i>The Da Vinci Code</i> and <i>Assassin’s Creed</i>. In this volume an overview of the early legacies of the military orders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is followed by studies of the Templar conspiracy theories of Rosslyn Chapel the Venerable Order of St John’s creation of a medieval past the legacy of the Hospitallers in modern Greece the military orders in nineteenth-century Mexico and the use of the Knights Templar by the far-right in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Ultimately it expands the scope of the field and indicates further avenues for research.</p><p><i>The Modern Memory of the Military-religious Orders</i> is a valuable resource for students and scholars of the crusades the military orders and medievalism.</p>