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The great religious orders of Christianity - the Benedictines, the Dominicans, the Franciscans and the Jesuits - are well known for their monasteries, their lea

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In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to t

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