Historians of political development in the High Middle Ages often focus on the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries as the generations in which monarchy finally triumphed over aristocracy to create a monopoly on governing institutions in western Europe. However, it was precisely in this period that Simon of Montfort emerged from his modest forest lordship in France to conquer a principality stretching from the Pyrenees to the Rhône. A remarkable ascendancy in any period, it is perhaps especially so in its contrast with the accepted historiographical narrative. Nonetheless, Simon has been largely overlooked on his own terms, especially by English historiography. Despite the numerous works over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries devoted to the Albigensian Crusade, only a handful of biographies of Simon have been published, none of which are in English. Furthermore, those French works dedicated to his life have been little more than narrative retellings of the Albigensian Crusade from Simon's perspective, with an introductory chapter or two about his family background, participation in the Fourth Crusade, and life in France. French domination of the historiography has also prevented any deep exploration of Simon's English connexions, chiefly his inheritance of the earldom of Leicester in 1206. The substantial inquest regulating this inheritance awaits publication by David Crouch, but at least forty other acts from Simon's life remain unedited, despite increased interest in the Albigensian Crusade and several having been catalogued for over a century. Though one of the aims of this thesis is to correct the lack of Anglophone attention paid to this seminal figure of the early thirteenth century, a biographical study of Simon has consequences beyond the man himself. The inheritance of his claims to the Midi by the French Crown after his death means that his documents survive in a volume uncharacteristic of a baron of his station. The dedicated narrative history of his career provided by Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay's Hystoria albigensis is likewise the most intimate prose portrait of a comital figure available from the period. Thus Simon's life is perhaps the best recorded of his contemporary peers, offering a rare insight into the priorities and means of a baron's administration of his lands and leadership of a crusade. Moreover, despite the supposed triumph of monarchy during his lifetime, Simon's meteoric career took place largely outside of royal auspices and sought crowned approval for its gains only after the fact. Simon's experience was certainly exceptional, both in itself and in the volume of its narrative and documentary records, but it nevertheless provides a challenge to an uncomplicated or teleological understanding of contemporary politics as effectively national affairs directed by kings. Rather than spend his life in the train of one particular king, as did his contemporaries William the Marshal or William of Barres, Simon's career, in its various geographical manifestations, saw him in the lordship of three different Crowns: France, England, and Aragon. Though his relations with the first of these were almost entirely amicable - if not always harmonious - he was more often in open conflict with the latter two. As a crusader, Simon was also subject to a fourth lord, the pope, for the major events of his career. But even while executing papal mandates, Simon at times came into conflict with the distant will of Rome. However, none of these lords successfully prevented Simon's ascendancy. Angevin and Barcan influence in the Midi was drastically handicapped by the Albigensian Crusade, in the latter case, definitively. And while popes may have disagreed with some particulars of Simon's prosecution of the crusade, he remained their best hope for curbing the threat of heresy. One reason for Simon's success in the face of opposition was his ability to exploit the margins of monarchical authority, retreating from his obligations of fidelity to lord in favour of another, thus presenting himself as a legitimate actor while interfering with the designs of a nominal superior. Such independence, however, required alternative bases for his own power that could not be found in the largely rhetorical refuge offered by a distant overlord. In the absence of support from above, Simon worked to cultivate relationships with his social peers and the lesser French nobility. Notably, however, outside of his immediate family, adherence to his cause more often came from his socially inferior neighbours and those with common spiritual devotions than from his wider kinship network. His extended family, of roughly equivalent social standing to himself, were more interested in following the French king in his campaigns to consolidate royal power than investing deeply in Simon's crusade. However, those with similar ideological concerns or dependent on his success saw in Simon a charismatic and effective leader worthy of their allegiance. For Simon himself, the crusade was animated by the programme of reform advocated by the Cistercians and certain Parisian theologians. His context was permeated by the reformers, especially in his close connexions with the abbey of Vaux-de-Cernay. Concerns about just war, the liberation of the Holy Land, ecclesiastical liberty, sexual morality, and the purgation of heresy espoused by Cistercians and schoolmen were reflected in Simon's career. He was more than a simple cipher for ecclesiastical priorities: his campaigns and government were ambiguous in their attitude toward mercenaries and complicit in the problem of usury. Nevertheless, Simon's crusades to both Syria and the Midi demonstrated a remarkable dedication to building a Christian republic according to the vision of the reformers. But Simon was not always a crusader, and the majority of his career - though not the majority of its records - took place in his ancestral lands in France. Though his time in the shadow of Paris does not offer the same salient examples of baronial independence as his conquest of the Midi, it does provide a crucial glimpse at the ordinary exercise of aristocratic government on a more intimate scale. His forest lordship furnished lessons of administration that would prove relevant to his rule in the Midi, such as the diplomatic projection of authority, the value of seigneurial continuity, the economic benefit of thriving towns, the necessity of an intensively participating chivalric following, and the advantage of wide ecclesiastical patronage. Similarly, Simon's brief seisin and subsequent disseisin of the honor of Leicester demonstrated the fragility of his power when many of these elements were lacking. In addition to abstract lessons of governance, his northern lands also provided the financial backing necessary for at least the initial phases of his crusading career. Thus Simon's lordship in France and England, though not nearly as autonomous as in the Midi, is far from irrelevant to his later manifestations of independence: it rather informs his later government and even made it possible.

Cette thèse propose une perspective comparatiste pour étudier Acre et Alexandrie, aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles. La comparaison se nourrit des ressemblances et des divergences entre les deux villes. Elle se concentre cependant sur des aspects précis de leur histoire : les conflits et les échanges par le biais de leurs acteurs, de leurs impacts et de leurs conséquences à la fois sur chacune des deux cités et, plus largement, à l'échelle régionale de la Méditerranée orientale. Durant la période de domination latine en Terre Sainte, Acre et Alexandrie paraissent, à première vue, très différentes puisqu'elles s'inscrivent, au cours de cette période, dans deux sociétés disctinctes. Acre est gouvernée par une élite étrangère. Ses quartiers évoluent en fonction de conflits entre les factions occidentales et les privilèges qui leur sont accordés par le roi de Jérusalem. Alexandrie reste une ville orientale sur laquelle les Croisades ont peu d'impact. La démarche comparatiste permet une mise en cause de cette représentation trop approximative. Elle révèle à la fois d'autres différences et un certain nombre de similitudes dans l'évolution des deux villes. Le corpus disponible pour cette étude montre une transformation topographique importante d'Acre et d'Alexandrie au XIIIe siècle. Il permet également l'étude des systèmes servant à l'entretien des élites dans les deux cités ainsi que l'évolution du rôle des deux villes dans différents réseaux et espaces (la Méditerrranée, les villes portuaires à proximité, l'hinterland immédiat, les routes de pèlerinage et de commerce) en fonction des changements politiques, des conquêtes militaires, mais aussi du progrès technique. / This thesis offers a comparative study of Acre and Alexandria during the 12th and 13th centuries. The comparison draws on the similarities and differences between both cities. However, particular focus is given to some specific aspects in their history, especially through a study of the main players in conflicts and forms of exchange, and the impact and consequences of these on both cities as well as on the Eastern Mediterrranean. During the Latin domination of the Holy Land, Acre and Alexandria initially seem very different from one another because they were part of two distinct societies at this time. Acre was governed by a foreign elite. The town’s quarters evolved with the conflicts which opposed the different western factions inside the city, as well as the privileges that these groups received from the King of Jerusalem. Alexandria, on the other hand, remained an oriental city on which the Crusades had very little impact. This comparative study offers a broader view of their history, showing other differences between them as well as similarities in their historical development. The sources available for this research show important topographic development in Acre and Alexandria during the 13th century. They also contain information about the institutions allotted to support the local elites as well as on the evolving role of Acre and Alexandria within different networks and areas (the Mediterranean, nearby port cities, the immediate hinterland, trade and pilgrimage routes) in periods of political change, military conquests, but also of technical progress.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-05-07T13:39:49Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Thiago Damasceno Pinto Milhomem - 2018.pdf: 14290151 bytes, checksum: 86ef286d465a454e620f90c2592bfcb4 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-05-07T14:00:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Thiago Damasceno Pinto Milhomem - 2018.pdf: 14290151 bytes, checksum: 86ef286d465a454e620f90c2592bfcb4 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-07T14:00:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Thiago Damasceno Pinto Milhomem - 2018.pdf: 14290151 bytes, checksum: 86ef286d465a454e620f90c2592bfcb4 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / Pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca (ḥajj) has been one of the pillars of Islam since the seventh century, the time of the advent of the religion in the Arabian Peninsula, as an ordering in the Holy Qur'an and in the sayings and deeds of Prophet Muḥammad. Being this pilgrimage mandatory for all faithful adults in good enough physical and material conditions, different personalities of the Islamic world have realized the sacred journey in different times. Many have left their written testimonies, as a legacy of their observations and impressions on societies and historical events of Islamic and non-Islamic domains, thus influencing the emergence of a specific literary genre of Arab-Islamic culture, the travel journal (rihla). One of the pioneers of this genre was Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217), a Muslim from the city of Valencia, writer of a journal of his travels to the region that today corresponds to the Middle East, between 1183 and 1185, a period between the Second and the Third Crusade. We use Ibn Jubayr's travel journal edited as “Through the East (Rihla)”, a version published by Alianza Literaria in 2007, and which consists of a translation from Arabic into Spanish by Felipe Maíllo Salgado. From this testimony, centered on the religious journey of the writer-traveler to Mecca, we analyze the possibilities and social conditions of ḥajj at the end of the twelfth century, in the context of the Crusades, a long-lasting historical phenomenon permeated by important religious, political, economic, military and cultural aspects / A peregrinação à cidade santa de Meca (ḥajj) é um dos pilares do Islã desde o século VII, época do advento da religião na Península Arábica, configurando como uma ordenação no Alcorão Sagrado e nos ditos e feitos do Profeta Muḥammad. Sendo essa peregrinação obrigatória para todo fiel adulto e são e em condições físicas e materiais para tal, diferentes personalidades do mundo islâmico realizaram a jornada sagrada em diversas épocas. Muitos deixaram seus testemunhos por escrito, legando à posteridade suas observações e impressões sobre sociedades e eventos históricos de domínios islâmicos e não islâmicos, influenciando assim no surgimento de um gênero literário específico da cultura árabe-islâmica, o relato de viagem (rihla). Um dos pioneiros do gênero foi Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217), muçulmano natural da cidade de Valência, escritor de um relato referente às suas viagens à região que hoje corresponde ao Oriente Médio, entre 1183 e 1185, período situado entre a Segunda e a Terceira Cruzada. Utilizamos o relato de viagens de Ibn Jubayr editado como A través del Oriente (Rihla), versão publicada pela editora Alianza Literaria em 2007 e que consiste em uma tradução do árabe para o espanhol feita por Felipe Maíllo Salgado. A partir desse testemunho, centrado no périplo religioso do viajante-escritor a Meca, analisaremos as possibilidades e condições sociais de realização do ḥajj em fins do século XII, contexto de Cruzadas, fenômeno histórico de longa duração permeado por importantes aspectos religiosos, políticos, econômicos, militares e culturais.

Cette thèse consiste en une étude historique et archéologique de la ville de Masyaf (Syrie) et de son château durant les XIIe et XIIIe siècles, alors qu’elle se trouvait sous l'autorité de la communauté ismaʿilienne nizârite. Cette ville, qui se situe sur le versant oriental de la montagne côtière de la Syrie occidentale, est connue comme siège et capitale de cette communauté. La présente recherche porte sur le développement de cette minorité religieuse syrienne, connue en Occident durant les Croisades comme celle des Assassins (ou Hachchachines en arabe). L’Etat qu’elle a fondé a joué un rôle important dans le conflit politique et militaire qui a opposé Croisés et Musulmans. Le travail offre pour la première fois une étude archéologique approfondie des bâtiments et des complexes architecturaux qui forment le tissu de la ville de Masyaf et participent à sa configuration ; il analyse le rempart et ses portes, les rues principales qui dessinent le plan urbain, les monuments importants, en particulier la grande mosquée, le bain, le souq, les mausolées de plusieurs personnages historiques. Les résultats préliminaires de l'étude du château y sont également exposés de manière détaillée. Ils révèlent deux phases principales de construction : la première comprise entre le Xe siècle et le milieu du XIIe siècle, la deuxième comprise entre le milieu du XIIe siècle et la fin du XIIIe siècle, qui correspond à la période des Ismaʿiliens nizarites. Grâce à l’apport de la céramique, de la numismatique et de l’épigraphie, l’archéologie permet de mettre en évidence, pour la première fois, l'activité édilitaire de Rašid al-Din Sinan, le « Vieux de la montagne », entre 1162 à 1192 / This thesis is a historical and archaeological study of the city of Masyaf (Syria) and its castle during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when it was under the authority of the Ismā'īlī.Nizari community. This city, which lies on the eastern slopes of the coastal mountains of Western Syria, is known as the seat and capital of this community. This research focuses on the development of a Syrian religious minority, known in the West during the Crusades as the Assassins (or Hachchachines in Arabic). The State she founded has played an important role in the political and military conflict between Crusaders and Muslims. The work provides for the first time a thorough archaeological survey of buildings and architectural complexes that form the fabric of the city of Masyaf and participate in its configuration; it analyzes the ramparts and gates, the main streets that draw the urban plan, important monuments, especially the great mosque, the bath, the suq, the mausoleums of several historical figures. Preliminary results of the study of the castle are also exposed in detail. They reveal two main phases of construction: the first between the tenth century and the mid-twelfth century, the second between the mid-twelfth century and the late thirteenth century, which is the period of Nizari Isma'ilis. Thanks to the contribution of ceramics, numismatics and epigraphy, archeology helps to reveal, for the first time, the building activity of Rasid al-Din Sinan, the "Old Man of the Mountain", between 1162-1192.

Le présent travail s’inscrit dans le regain d’intérêt pour le complexe des chroniques médiévales de l’ordre Teutonique. Afin de mieux cerner les fonctions de l’écriture historiographique au sein de l’Ordre, il fait le choix de s’attacher en particulier à une compilation méconnue de la première moitié du XVe siècle, l’Ancienne Chronique des Grands-Maîtres. Riche d’une tradition manuscrite touffue, la chronique se présente pour l’essentiel comme la mise en prose des œuvres plus célèbres qui l’ont précédée au XIVe siècle. La nouvelle donne politique et militaire qui affecte alors un ordre Teutonique en crise oblige pourtant à s’interroger sur les ressorts et les limites de cette apparente continuité d’un discours historique dont tout par ailleurs paraît attester la caducité. Appuyée sur les outils de la philologie et de la codicologie, l’enquête s’efforce de retracer le cycle de vie d’une compilation, depuis ses « prétextes » du XIVe s. jusqu’à sa réception, en ses manuscrits et au-delà, étudiée jusqu’à 1550 environ. La résurgence historiographique dissimule en réalité un contexte d’écriture nouveau. La chronique est née dans les années 1430 d’un projet éminemment partisan alors que l’Ordre se déchire entre plusieurs factions, mais tire précisément sa force d’avancer masquée, sous la forme d’une chronica nullius. Dès lors, la réception du texte apparaît sous le jour d’un processus de neutralisation progressive d’un manifeste tendancieux. Elle montre aussi que ce précis d’histoire, en dépit de sa large diffusion, échoue in fine à devenir une vulgate historiographique. L’étude est prolongée par une nouvelle édition critique du texte, ambitionnant de remplacer l’édition de 1866 / This PhD aims at giving an insight into the uses of historical writing within the medieval Teutonic Order, whose chronicles have been the focus of a renewed scholarly interest for two decades. It focuses on a little-known compilation dating back to the first half of the 15th century, the Old Chronicle of the Grand Masters. Preserved in many manuscripts, this text reads at first glance as a prose version of more famous masterpieces from the 14th century. The political and military “new deal” a weakened Teutonic Order has to cope with in 15th-century Prussia raises a wide range of questions around this permanence of a historical discourse which was otherwise considered at odds with the real situation of the Order after Tannenberg. Applying the tools of codicology and philology, this work tries to shed light on the complete span of a chronicle’s life, from its “foretexts” to its reception until the middle of the 16th century. As a matter of fact, the apparent revival of an “outdated” historical discourse conceals a wholly modified set of conditions impinging on history writing. The text proves to be a biased manifesto under the guise of an “authorless” unveiling of the true history, and is as such deeply embedded within a context of internal rivalries between “regional” clans within the Order. The further reception of the text therefore needs to be reasserted as a process of step-by-step neutralization. At the same time, the inquiry into the chronicle’s reception shows that the Old Chronicle of the Grand Masters, despite a widespread diffusion, failed to become a historical vulgate of sorts. A new critical edition of the text is given to replace the old edition by Toeppen, flawed with many shortcomings

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-25T12:57:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 eniomarcosdeoliveira.pdf: 1019097 bytes, checksum: f6f07fb49d39201c72e3d1d1105acd75 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T19:29:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 eniomarcosdeoliveira.pdf: 1019097 bytes, checksum: f6f07fb49d39201c72e3d1d1105acd75 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T19:29:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 eniomarcosdeoliveira.pdf: 1019097 bytes, checksum: f6f07fb49d39201c72e3d1d1105acd75 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-02 / Esta tese analisa a trajetória de Francisco de Assis e o significado do encontro com o Sultão num período de conflitos entre cristãos e muçulmanos, durante a V Cruzada. A vida segundo a forma do Santo Evangelho e a escolha da Minoridade como modo de ser no mundo abriram caminhos para que Francisco de Assis pudesse ser apontado como um buscador do diálogo inter-religioso. Sua postura e seus textos são analisados nesta pesquisa através de autores que escreveram sobre o encontro acontecido entre Francisco de Assis e o Sultão Malek-al-Kamil, em Damieta, no ano de 1219, um encontro claramente dialogal. A pesquisa foi dividida em três Partes e em sete Capítulos, contendo a primeira Parte, três Capítulos, e a segunda e terceira Partes, dois Capítulos cada uma. Na primeira Parte foi abordado o processo de conversão pelo qual passou Francisco; na segunda Parte foi abordado o processo de evolução da fraternidade formada ao redor de Francisco, a constituição da Regra de vida da Ordem, os momentos de aproximação e de distanciamento da visão de Francisco diante da visão da Igreja. Na terceira e última Partes foram abordados os textos e atos de Francisco que mostram como o seu projeto de vida segundo a forma do Santo Evangelho e a escolha da minoridade o apontam como um buscador de diálogo. / This thesis seeks to analyze the trajectory of Francisco de Assis and the meaning of his meeting with the sultan in a time of conflicts between Christians and Muslims during the V Crusades. Life according to the Holy Gospel and the Minority's choice as to how to exist in the world opened up paths so that Francisco de Assis could be appointed as a man who searched for inter religious dialogue. His stance and his texts are analyzed in this research through authors that wrote about the meeting that occurred between Francisco de Assis and Sultan malek-al-kamil in the city of Damieta in the year 1219-- it was clearly meeting for dialogue. The research was divided into three parts and seven chapters. The first part has three chapters, and the second and third have two each. The first part contains the process of conversion in which Francisco went through, the second part contains the process of the evolution of the brotherhood formed around Francisco, a constitution of the Law of Life of Order, the moments of nearing and distancing of the vision of Francisco compared to the church's vision. The third and last part explain Francisco's texts and acts show how his life project according to a form of the Holy Gospel and the choice of the minority indicate him as a dialogue seeker.

The reign of King Baldwin I (1100-1118) has thus far received little noteworthy attention by historians as the important pivotal period following the First Crusade conquest of Jerusalem in 1099. The two decades of his rule marked the extension of Latin conquests in the east, most notably by the conquest of the important coastal cities of Arsulf, Acre, Caesarea, Beirut and Sidon. These vital ports for the early Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem provided outlets to the sea for commerce, as well as safe harbors for incoming assistance from the west. Further, Baldwin led in the establishment of strong secular control over ecclesiastical authorities, and provided a model of administration for subsequent monarchs to follow until the loss of the kingdom in 1187. Baldwin's contributions to these developments are presented here in a bibliographical framework to illustrate both his important place in crusader historiography, as well as to gauge the significance of his memory in contemporary literature as a second Joshua archetype. The conquest of Jerusalem and the decades that followed were extraordinarily perilous for the western "colonial" transplants, and thus a Biblical precedent was sought as an explanation to the success of the crusaders. This thesis argues that Fulcher of Chartres, the chaplain and primary contemporary biographer of Baldwin I, saw a parallel with the Biblical figure of Joshua as beneficial to posterity. By the establishment of Baldwin's memory in such a context, Fulcher of Chartres encouraged further western support for the Latin Kingdom, and reveals the important trials that faced Jerusalem's first Latin king.

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Le concile de Troyes qui s'ouvre le 13 janvier 1129, permet de confirmer une initiative née en Orient neuf années auparavant. Des chevaliers avaient alors exprimé la volonté de vivre de façon religieuse, en faisant le triple vœu monastique de pauvreté, de chasteté et d'obéissance, tout en continuant à pratiquer le métier des armes afin de protéger les pèlerins sur les routes de Terre sainte. Reconnus par la papauté à Troyes et dotés d'une règle, les « pauvres chevaliers du Christ et du Temple de Salomon » devenaient le premier ordre religieux-militaire de l'histoire. L'ordre de l'Hôpital, qui existait déjà à Jérusalem et dont la mission consistait à soigner les pauvres malades, se militarisa progressivement au milieu du XIIe siècle, s'inspirant de l'exemple du Temple. Templiers et Hospitaliers ont inspiré par la suite tous les autres ordres militaires. Une tradition historiographique des croisades a longtemps entretenu l'idée de deux ordres ennemis dont les conflits ont provoqué la perte des États latins d'Orient. L'étude de deux siècles de coexistence commune entre Templiers et Hospitaliers en Terre sainte permet d'enterrer cette image et constater combien ces deux ordres religieux-militaires se sont influencés. Elle permet également de rétablir la vérité sur les relations entre les frères des deux ordres. Aux frontières de l'histoire comparée, cette étude suit la trame chronologique des maîtres du Temple et de l'Hôpital, permettant de mettre en relief l'importance des décisions de ces hommes. Des études thématiques sur l'organisation de ces deux ordres, leurs structures, leurs règles, les images qu'ils transmettent et sur leur rôle dans certains grands évènements des États latins d'orient permet de comprendre les liens qui les unissaient, ainsi que la façon dont ils s'influencèrent. On a trop souvent relevé leur rivalité politique, dans un royaume de Jérusalem où l'absence d'un pouvoir royal fort leur a rapidement laissé toute liberté. De la même façon, on a trop souvent oublié le prix que Templiers et Hospitaliers ont payé ensemble sur les champs de bataille de Terre sainte, se comportant comme ce qu'ils étaient : des frères d'armes. / The Council of Troyes, wich opened on January 13, 1129, confirms an initiative born in the East nine years earlier. Knights had then expressed the will to live in a religious way, by making the triple monastic vow of poverty, chastity and obedience, while continuing to practice the profession of arms in order to protect pilgrims on the roads of the Holy Land. Recognized by the papacy in Troyes and endowed with a rule, the « Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon » became the first military order in history. The Order of the Hospital, which already existed in Jerusalem and whose missions was to care for the poor sick, gradually became militarized in the middle of the 12th century, drawing inspiration from the example of the Temple. Templars and Hospitallers subsequently inspired all other military orders. A historiographical tradition of the Crusades has long maintained the idea of two enemy orders whose conflicts caused the loss of the Latin States of the East. The study of two centuries of common coexistence between Templars and Hospitallers in the Holy Land allows us to bury this image and see how much these military orders influenced each other. It aslo helps to restore the truth about the relationship between the brothers of the two orders. At the frontiers of comparative history, this study follows the chronological framework of the masters of the Temple and the Hospital, making it possible to highlight the importance of the decisions of these men. Thematic studies on the organization of these two orders, their structures, their rules, the images that they transmit and their role in some great events of the Latin States of the East make it possible to understand the links wich united them, as well as the how they influenced each other. We have too often noted their political rivalry, in a kingdom of Jerusalem where the absence of a strong royal power quickly gave them complete freedom. In the same way, we have too often forgotten the price that Templars and Hospitallers paid together on the battlefields of the Holy Land, behaving like what they were : brothers in arms.

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