The analysis across several regions, including Mexico, Brazil, and Greece, makes this volume a useful tool for scholars and students studying the crusades across the world.
An overview of the early legacies of the military orders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is followed by studies of the Templar conspiracy theories of Rosslyn Chapel, the Venerable Order of St John's creation of a medieval past, the legacy of the Hospitallers in modern Greece, the military orders in nineteenth-century Mexico, and the use of the Knights Templar by the far-right in Bolsonaro's Brazil, expanding the traditional focus of prior research in medievialism.
The broad chronological scope provides an in-depth overview that allows for a more nuanced understanding of the development of military orders.
