Orders of Knighthood and of Merit: The Pontifical, Religious, and Secularised Catholic-Founded Orders and Their Relationship to the Apostolic See

By Van Duren Bander and Peter Bander Van Duren

This book, building upon Archbishop's Cardinale's Orders of Knighthood, Awards and the Holy See, this book presents the many Catholic-founded Orders of Knighthood in a new perspective, and deals not only with the Pontifical Equestrian Orders and the two surviving religious Orders of Knighthood, but with the many Catholic-founded but secularized Orders--dynastic, state, and crown--that exist today. Drawing on source materials never before available, the author is able to expose misunderstandings and misinformation and highlight errors that have been perpetuated, sometimes for centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861403711
• ISBN13: 9780861403714
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"