The Crusades, 1071-1204
Open Access Articles
- Paul, N. L. and Schenk, J. G. (2016) Family memory and the Crusades. In: Cassidy-Welch, M. (ed.) Remembering the Crusades and Crusading. Series: Remembering the Medieval and early modern worlds. Routledge, pp. 173-186. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/118383/.
- Schenk, J. (2021) The military orders in the Holy Land. In: The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Cambridge University Press. Available here: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/229089/
- Schenk, J. (2017) The documentary evidence for Templar religion. In: Borchardt, K., Döring, K., Josserand, P. and Nicholson, H. (eds.) The Templars and their Sources. Series: Crusades - Subsidia (10). Routledge, pp. 199-211. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/118384/.
- Schenk, J. (2016) Aspects and problems of the Templars’ religious presence in Medieval Europe from the twelfth to the early fourteenth century. Traditio, 71, pp. 273-302. Available here: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/118379/.
- Schenk, J. (2012) 'The Cult of the Cross in the Order of the Temple', in Isabel Cristina Ferreira Fernandes (Coord.), As Ordens Militares. Freires, Guerreiros, Cavaleiros. Actas do VI Encontro sobre Ordens Militares, Vol. 1, GEsOS/Município de Palmela, Palmela, 2012.
- Schenk, J. (2011) 'Some Hagiographic Evidence for Templar Spirituality, Religious Life and Conduct', Revue Mabillon, pp. 99-119.
- Schenk, J. (2010) 'Nomadic Violence in the First Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Military Orders', Reading Medieval Studies 36, pp. 39-55.
Related Book
Schenk, J., Templar Families: Landowning Families and the Order of the Temple in France, c.1120–1307 (Cambridge, 2012) - Founded in c. 1120, in the aftermath of the First Crusade in Jerusalem, the Order of the Temple was a Christian brotherhood dedicated to the military protection of pilgrims and the Holy Land, attracting followers and supporters throughout Christian Europe. This detailed study explores the close relationship between the Order of the Temple and the landowning families it relied upon for support. 
Focussing on the regions of Burgundy, Champagne and Languedoc, Jochen Schenk investigates the religious expectations that guided noble and knightly families to found and support Templar communities in the European provinces, and examines the social dynamics and mechanisms that tied these families to each other. The book illustrates the close connection between the presence of Cistercians and the incidence of crusading within Templar family networks, and offers new insights into how collective identities and memory were shaped through ritual and tradition among medieval French-speaking social elites.