Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : TRH520 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Second Cycle (Master's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 3 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 3 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 5 |
The aim of this course is to analyze the founding purposes, interactions, activities in the Near East and Europe, and institutional structures of chivalric orders such as Templier, Hospitalier, Teutonic, St. Lazarus, St. Thomas and Santiago, which were established in the Crusader Age, and their contributions to the Crusades and their activities against the Turkish-Islamic world.
In this course, the reason for the Papal support of the religious-military characterized chivalric orders established in order to respond to the changing political balances in the region and the religious and social needs that emerged after the establishment of Latin states in the Near East, the roles of these orders in meeting the military needs of the Crusader states and their social activities in meeting the health, food and security needs that arose in the context of religious mobility will be explained.
| Lec. Muhittin ÇEKEN |
| 1. | Students will learn the foundation purposes of religious organizations in the Middle East during the Crusades, their contribution to the crusades, their activities in the region and the importance of the period in terms of the Christian society. |
| 2. | Students learn the political and military impact of Templier, Hospitalier, Teutonic and other orders of chivalry on the Crusader Age. |
| 3. | The students learn how these organizations or sects are engaged in religious and ideological terms against the Turkish-Islamic world and what their ultimate aims are in the context of the Crusades. |
| 4. | Students learn the institutional structures of these Orders. |
| 5. | Can evaluate the relationship between religion and war through institutional structures. |
| 6. | Discuss the contemporary reflections of religious-military orders. |
| 7. | Theoretical knowledge obtained from course can be used in their research and able to make their own analysis. |
| 1. | Fulcher of Chartres, Chronocicle of the First Crusade, Oxford, 1941. |
| 2. | Charles G. Addison, The History of The Knights Templars: The Church and the Temple, Printed by GJ. Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand, London, 1842 |
| 3. | İbn Kalanisi, Şam Tarihine Zeyl: I. ve II. Haçlı Seferleri Dönemi, Çev: Onur Özatağ, İş Bankası Yayınları, İstanbul, 2015 |
| 4. | Joseph Francois, History of the Crusades, Translated by W. Robson, Michigan Statae University Library, New York, 1891. |
| 5. | W. Harlan Cord, A Knight Templar Abroad, John Burn Publishing Co., 1885. |
| 6. | Muhittin Çeken, İsa'nın Yoksul Askerleri: Tapınak Şövalyeleri, Timaş Yayınları, İstanbul 2020. |
| 7. | The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades, Ed. Helen J. Nicholson-Jochen Burgtorf, Routledge, London 2020. |
| 8. | The Templars: The Rise, and Legacy of A Military Religious Order, Ed. Jochen Burgtorf, Shlomo Lotan and Enric Mallorqui-Ruscalleda, Routledge, London 2021. |
| 9. | Military Orders VIII, ed. Emanuel Buttigieg ve Clara Almagro Vidal, Routledge, Londra 2025. |
| 10. | J. M. Upton-Ward, Tapınak Şövalyelerinin El Kitabı, çev. Muhittin Çeken, Kronik Yayınları, İstanbul 2024. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %40 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 14 | 2 | 2 | 56 |
| Assignment | 1 | 28 | 1 | 29 |
| Individual Work | 1 | 28 | 1 | 29 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 130 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | PÇ-7 | PÇ-8 | PÇ-9 | PÇ-10 | |
OÇ-1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||||
OÇ-2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||||
OÇ-3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | ||||
OÇ-4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
OÇ-5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |||||
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