The Order of the Temple in the Lower Rhone Valley (1124-1312). Military Orders, Crusades, and Southern Societies. CHAM17.
PULyon| N° d'inventaire | 22844 |
| Format | 15.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 591 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Lyon, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782729712129 |
Fifteen years after its publication, this collection, based on a corpus of some 1,600 acts of practice – a thousand of which were previously unpublished – supplemented by narrative, literary, and archaeological sources, is still impressive. Born at the end of the 20th century, the "Military Orders' connection" has continued to develop over the past fifteen years. Combining a chronological and sociographic approach, Damien Carraz has helped lay its foundations, addressing expected aspects while charting new paths, constituting so many crucial contributions to the history of the Order of the Temple: the warm welcome from the Church and the even better and more lasting one from secular society, the inurbamento (the settlement in the city) of the military orders, their openness to law and writing, the extent of their spiritual supervision and what is now called their visual culture have been perceived anew in the light of the "laboratory" of the Bas-Rhône. By refusing to consider the Temple as an isolate, cut off from its environment, Damien Carraz, from the beginning of the 2000s, was part of the movement of young researchers in France who, following Alain Demurger, a pioneer in the field, were striving to renew the approach to military orders. The lines he opened have entered the historiography of military orders and, like the inurbamento, are today found in the most authoritative syntheses, making the work, now reissued, an essential reference for anyone working on or interested in the Order of the Temple.
Fifteen years after its publication, this collection, based on a corpus of some 1,600 acts of practice – a thousand of which were previously unpublished – supplemented by narrative, literary, and archaeological sources, is still impressive. Born at the end of the 20th century, the "Military Orders' connection" has continued to develop over the past fifteen years. Combining a chronological and sociographic approach, Damien Carraz has helped lay its foundations, addressing expected aspects while charting new paths, constituting so many crucial contributions to the history of the Order of the Temple: the warm welcome from the Church and the even better and more lasting one from secular society, the inurbamento (the settlement in the city) of the military orders, their openness to law and writing, the extent of their spiritual supervision and what is now called their visual culture have been perceived anew in the light of the "laboratory" of the Bas-Rhône. By refusing to consider the Temple as an isolate, cut off from its environment, Damien Carraz, from the beginning of the 2000s, was part of the movement of young researchers in France who, following Alain Demurger, a pioneer in the field, were striving to renew the approach to military orders. The lines he opened have entered the historiography of military orders and, like the inurbamento, are today found in the most authoritative syntheses, making the work, now reissued, an essential reference for anyone working on or interested in the Order of the Temple.