РЫЦАРИ ХРИСТА: ОБРАЗ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ БУДУЩЕГО

Andrii Baumeister

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A new episode of the Cultural Odyssey in Search of Meaning. Anton Kazansky and I explore the military-monastic orders of the Middle Ages.

How did the unique combination of monastic virtues and military skill arise in the military-monastic orders of the Middle Ages?
Who is a knight-monk?
Who are the Templars, the Knights of St. John, and the Knights of the Teutonic Order?
Is it true that the organization of the Teutonic Order became the prototype for the creation of the states of Modern Europe?
What was the structure of the military-monastic orders?
What was the life of a knight-monk like?
The spiritual, political, military, and economic life of knight-monks.
Knight-monks and the question of political agency.
The Teutonic Order and the Reformation. The Teutonic Order and the Kingdom of Prussia.
Can an organization of knight-monks be compared to a modern business corporation?
Why could an organization of knight-monks become a model for building a political system in the future?

Timecodes:

00:00 Introduction
05:46 Sergei Eisenstein's film "Alexander Nevsky" (1938) and the image of military monastic orders in culture. Alexander Ford's film "The Crusaders" (1960). Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel "The Crusaders" (1897).

15:18 The origins of the military monastic orders. The Holy Land, Jerusalem, the Middle East.

17:08 Western monasticism in the 6th-12th centuries: Benedictines (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, OSB), Cistercians (Ordo Cisterciensis, OCist). Cluny Abbey and the Cluny Union of European Monasteries. The West's First Translocal Corporation.
27:49 Hugues de Pins. Founder of the Knights Templar. Who are the Templars (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonis)? Bernard of Clairvaux and his treatise "On the Praise of the New Military Order of the Knights Templar" (De laude novae militiae ad Milites Templi)
37:07 The Diversity of Orders and Their Regions
43:52 The Structure of the Orders. Statutes, Governance Structures, and Main Principles
55:08 The Distribution and Network Structure of the Orders
59:52 Financial Structure. The Model of Future Banks
01:11:53 The Teutonic Order (Ordo Teutonicus, Ordo fratrum domus Sanctae Mariae Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum). The Political Subjectivity of the Teutonic Order
01:24:36 A Prototype of Future Organizations
01:41:30 Mythology of the Orders
01:45:18 The Teutonic Order: The End of History and Spiritual Legacy. The Modern Structure of the Teutonic Order
01:52:23 Conclusion: Main Ideas and Conclusions

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