Death of ‘Documents relating to the Military Orders’
It was warned of long ago, and now it has come: the ‘Documents relating to the Military Orders’ are no longer available online. Cardiff University has closed down the links.
However, here comes Google cache to the rescue! All the files are still on google cache! So here they are:
Documents relating to the Military Orders online
Document One: contemporary reactions to the foundation of the military orders: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JXpLEwSPa0gJ:www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/hn/MilitaryOrders/MILORDOCS1.htm+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Dccument Two: How William Became a Monk
The Siege of Ascalon: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n4a2Pp4afYYJ:www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/hn/MilitaryOrders/Ascalon.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Extracts from the Chronicles of Matthew Paris:
Document Three: The Fall of Acre (1291): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SKGp4MK1P7QJ:www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/hn/MilitaryOrders/MILORDOCS3.htm+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Document Four: The Iberian Peninsula and the ‘Reconquest’: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hFP0b0yPI7UJ:www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/hn/MilitaryOrders/MILORDOCS4.htm+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Documents relating to the Baltic Crusade:
Charters of donation to the Military Orders
The Monastic Day and the Templars’ Day
Jacques de Vitry: Sermons to a Military Order
Literature of the Military Orders
Relations with Rulers
The Military Orders and Economic Growth
Crusade Planning in the late thirteenth century
The Trial of the Templars
Some of them also appear on other websites, e.g. Paul Halsall’s Online Sourcebook and the De Re Militari site.
