The class is based on the medieval military order.
Furthermore, there was a sense that communes threatened the medieval social order.
For these men the classics were tools, even weapons, to use against the medieval order and the church, against the authorized creeds of the time.
The peak of this pattern of medieval order was the diocesan authority, the bishop himself.
The collection consists of correspondence from the Knights Hospitaller, a medieval military order.
No brief description can describe the range and qualities characteristic of these or other medieval orders.
The group's name is a reference to the medieval Christian military order involved in the Crusades.
In medieval social order, the symbols and rituals of rank were associated with real power and income.
Thenceforth it is met with in most medieval religious orders and associations.
With this verdict, those who try to impose a medieval order on society will think twice".
