LAS ÓRDENES MILITARES EN LA EDAD MEDIA PENINSULAR: HISTORIOGRAFÍA 1976-1992

Siguiendo el esquema indicado en la primera parte de este estudio, nos proponemos ahora presentar los materiales bibliográficos de los 15 últimos años relativos a Órdenes Militares medievales en los ámbitos geográficos de la Corona de Aragón y reinos de Navarra y Portugal. Como en aquella ocasión no pretendemos tampoco ahora alcanzar niveles de imposible exhaustividad, pero hemos procurado evitar previsibles dificultades de carácter temático o geográfico mediante la colaboración de especialistas, al proyecto de investigación en que se inscriben estas páginas. (...

The archaeology of the military orders: the material culture of holy war

This paper reviews the current state of research into the archaeology of the military orders. It contrasts the advances made by historians and archaeologists, with the latter continuing to focus on the particularism of individual sites, with an emphasis on architectural analyses. Historians have contributed new insights by adopting a supranational approach. This paper argues that archaeologists can build on this by adopting a more problem-oriented, comparative approach. Drawing on examples from frontier and heartland territories, archaeological approaches are subdivided into material investment, material identity and cultural landscapes, to place sites of the military orders within a long-term, multi-scalar contexts. This contributes to a broader social and economic understanding of the orders, who contributed significantly to urbanisation, rural development and trade, and invested in material expressions of their authority and ideology. The paper concludes that more holistic, inter-regional approaches will move the archaeological study of the military orders forward