Archaeology of the Military Orders. A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c. 1120–1291)

Helen J. Nicholson

doi:10.1080/09503110903343374

Nicholson, Helen J.

2009-12-01 00:00:00

Book Reviews 333 children and other family members, the book greatly enriches our understanding of gender and convivencia in the medieval Mediterranean. ELMA BRENNER Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge, UK ehob2@cam.ac.uk 2009 Elma Brenner Archaeology of the Military Orders. A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c. 1120–1291) ADRIAN J. BOAS, 2006 London: Routledge 336 pp. £65.00 (hardback) ISBN 9780415299800 £20.00 (paperback) ISBN 9780415487238 Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code (Bantam Press, 2003) and speculative writing such as Keith Laidler’s The Head of God: The Lost Treasure of the Templars (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998), has prompted considerable popular interest in the archaeology of the military religious orders, especially the Templars. Non- academics who wish to learn more about the historical military religious orders and their archaeology will find this book to be of interest. Adrian Boas, senior lecturer at the University of Haifa in Israel, is a specialist in the archaeology of the states founded by Western European Catholic Christians in Syria and Palestine between the end of the eleventh and the end of the thirteenth century, the so-called ‘‘Latin East’’. The

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Archaeology of the Military Orders. A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c. 1120–1291)

Archaeology of the Military Orders. A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c. 1120–1291)