The Military Orders

Military Orders first became central to European life in the 1130s and, despite the suppression of the Templars in 1312, remained so until Napoleon seized Malta from the Hospitallers in 1798. Even then, the spirit had not died, for hospitaller organisations based upon the original foundations were revived in the nineteenth century and many continue to perform important social functions today. The attraction of this subject was reflected in the conference on military orders held at St John's, Clerkenwell, in September 1992, which drew scholars from twenty countries; a large selection of their papers is published here. Themes as diverse as the administration of the Hospitaller estates in Essex; the Templar castles on the pilgrimage route to the Jordan; the treatment of prisoners of war by the Teutonic Order; and the perception of the military orders in Victorian England, are among the wide variety of studies contained in the forty-one papers in this volume. Yet, at the same time, the subject has an underlying unity, making it a field for fruitful co-operation between historians, archaeologists and art historians, the full potential of which is just beginning to be explored.

ISBN 086078438X   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780860784388 (What's this?)   Pages 432 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Volumes 001 Imprint Variorum   Weight (grammes) 750 Format Hardback   Published in Aldershot Publication date 22 Dec 1994   Series title Military Orders The Non-book description 170 X 242   Height (mm) 170 Library of Congress CR4701.M55   Width (mm) 242 DEWEY 271.791   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of Illustrations
		Abbreviations
		List of Contributors
		Editor's Preface
		Introduction by Jean Richard
Pt. I		The Hospital of St John
1		Pro defensione Terre Sancte: the Development and Exploitation of the Hospitallers' Landed Estate in Essex by Michael Gervers		3
2		The Character of the Hospitaller Properties in Spain in the Middle Ages by H. J. A. Sire		21
3		The Hospitallers and the Castilian-Leonese Monarchy: the Concession of Royal Rights, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries by Carlos Barquero Goni		28
4		Catholic and Protestant Members in the German Grand Priory of the Order of St John: the Development of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg by Walter G. Rodel		34
5		A Castle in Cyprus attributable to the Hospital? by Peter Megaw		42
6		Two Forged Thirteenth-Century Alms-Raising Letters used by the Hospitallers in Franconia by Karl Borchardt		52
7		How Many Miles to Babylon? The Devise des Chemins de Babiloine Redated by Robert Irwin		57
8		The Hospitallers' Medical Tradition: 1291-1530 by Anthony Luttrell		64
9		Documentary and Archaeological Evidence for Greek Settlement in the Countryside of Rhodes in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries by Kara Hattersley-Smith		82
10		The Fifteenth-Century Hospital of Rhodes: Tradition and Innovation by Fotini Karassava-Tsilingiri		89
11		Xenodochium to Sacred Infirmary: the Changing Role of the Hospital of the Order of St John, 1522-1631 by Ann Williams		97
12		Corsairs Parading Crosses: the Hospitallers and Venice, 1530-1798 by Victor Mallia-Milanes		103
13		'A Parish at Sea': Spiritual Concerns aboard the Order of St John's Galleys in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by David Allen		113
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