On the Military Orders in Medieval Europe: Structures and Perceptions (review)

2012 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 800-801
Author(s):  
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Military Orders ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals ASPECTS AND PROBLEMS OF THE TEMPLARS' RELIGIOUS PRESENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE FROM THE TWELFTH TO THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Traditio ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 273-302
Author(s):  
JOCHEN SCHENK
Keyword(s):  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Military Orders ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Lay Public

The medieval military orders were religious institutions whose members had professed a life of combat and prayer that integrated them into a religious landscape sharply defined by diversity. And yet still very little is known about the military orders’ religious functions in the dioceses in which they held ecclesiastical possessions. By focusing on one military order in particular, the Order of the Temple, this study aims to achieve two goals: first, to provide a critical overview of recent scholarship in the emerging field of military order (and especially Templar) religion, and second, to examine aspects of Templar religious involvement in medieval society in general and the reactions of senior clergymen to the Templars’ religious engagement on the parish level in particular. It argues that the Templars proved very keen to expand their network of parish churches and that in so doing they proved willing to engage with the lay public on a much larger scale than has hitherto been believed.

Claiming Nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: The Search for Status by Inca, Aztec, and Nasrid Descendants at the Habsburg Court

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-198
Author(s):  
Karoline P. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Military Service ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Military Orders ◽  
Habsburg Court ◽  
The Military

By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at the royal court in Madrid who claimed descent from the Inca rulers of Peru, the Aztec rulers of Mexico, and the Nasrid emirs of Granada found ways to acquire noble status and secure rights to their ancestral lands in the form of entailed estates. Their success in securing noble status and title to their mayorazgos (entailed estates) rested on strategies, used over the course of several generations, that included marriages with the peninsular nobility, ties of godparentage and patronage, and military service to the crown. This article will examine the networks formed in Madrid between roughly 1600 and 1630 when the descendants of the Inca and Aztec rulers interacted with peninsular noble families at court, obtaining noble status and entry into the military orders and establishing their mayorazgos. Their strategies for claiming nobility show striking parallels to those adopted by the Morisco nobility, and one aim of this article is to suggest how knowledge of such strategies circulated among families both at the royal court in Madrid and in the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru.

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