E 'in 2002 which opened the major project of the "Dictionary of Military Orders in the European Middle Ages." Coordinated by Nicole Bériou (University of Lyon-II, and Institut Universitaire de France) and Philippe Josserand (University of Nantes), this work echoes the dynamics of a field of study in full revival, by better integrating what is referred to those who are brothers of these institutions - the Templars, Teutonic Knights, Hospitallers, and more - with the expectations of connoisseurs and lovers of the Middle Ages. This wealth of documentation at the intersection of Military History, spiritual, political (not to speak of Architecture and Urbanism), extends in space, the Middle East of the Crusades in the Baltic countries of Teutonic Templar by commanderies England to Spain and Portugal of the Reconquista, and covers the four or five centuries of fascinating Middle Ages.
Around recognized French historians such as Alain Demurger Carraz and Damien, a team he worked for several years, bringing together more than 200 employees in some 25 countries, including eight European Union countries (Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom). Number of trade, which allowed a comparison of the historical traditions often ignored, an outstanding European labor, which has a total of 1,120 entries on a place, a person or an institution or on the contrary, on all orders in a thematic perspective.
preceded by a historical introduction by Alain Demurger, specialist of the Templars, with notes, bibliography and index, the "Dictionary of Military Orders in the European Middle Ages" gives, in Thus, far from the stereotype of Teutonic Templar stingy or cruel, to the wider public - those who are shaken by the torture and dispossession of the Templars, the dream of Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky and the ruins of the Crac des Chevaliers - l ' opportunity to better understand the institutions that were among the most original creations of the medieval period in the West.
