Full Description
Forty papers link the study of the military orders' cultural life and output with their involvement in political and social conflicts during the medieval and early modern period. Divided into two volumes, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe respectively, the collection brings together the most up-to-date research by experts from fifteen countries on a kaleidoscope of relevant themes and issues, thus offering a broad-ranging and at the same time very detailed study of the subject.
Contents
Volume 6.1: Cultural and Contact in the Mediterranean World
Introduction (Jonathan Riley-Smith)
Anthony Luttrell (Bath), The Hospitaller privilege of 1113: Text and context
Sebastián Salvadó (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Reflections of conflict in two fragments of the liturgical observances from the Primitive Rule of the Knights Templar
Kevin James Lewis (University of Oxford), Friend or foe: Islamic views of the military orders in the Latin East as drawn from Arabic Sources
Betty Binysh (University of Cardiff), Massacre or mutual benefit: The military orders' relations with their Muslim neighbours
Stephen Bennett (Queen Mary), The battle of Arsuf: A reappraisal of the charge of the Hospitallers
Thomas W. Smith (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Pope Honorius III, the military orders and the financing of the Fifth Crusade: A culture of papal preference?
Karol Polejowski (Ateneum University), Between Jaffa and Jerusalem - a few remarks on the defence of the southern border of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the years 1229-1244
Vardit Shotten-Hallel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ritual and conflict in the Hospitaller Church of St John in Acre: The architectural evidence
Gil Fishhof (Tel Aviv University), Hospitaller patronage and the mural cycle of the Church of the Resurrection at Abu-Gosh
Anna Takoumi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Tracing knights: The pictorial evidence of the Knights of St John in the art of the Eastern Mediterranean
Nicholas Coureas (Cyprus Research Centre), The manumission of Hospitaller slaves on fifteenth-century Rhodes and Cyprus
James Petre (University of Cardiff), Back to Baffes: A castle in Cyprus attributable to the Hospital revisited
Michael Heslop (Royal Holloway), Hospitaller statecraft in the Aegean
Pierre Bonneaud (Paris), A culture of consensus: The Hospitallers at Rhodes in the C15th
Emma Maglio (Aix-Marseille University), Holy spaces in the urban fabric: Religious topography of the town of Rhodes during the Hospitaller period
Gregory O'Malley (Hugglescote), Some developments in Hospitaller invective concerning the Turks, 1407-1530
Anne Brogini (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis), Crisis and revival. The convent of the Order of Malta during the Catholic Reformation
Emanuel Buttigieg (University of Malta), The Hospitallers and the Grand Harbour of Malta: Culture and conflict
Theresa Vella (Malta), Piety and ritual in the Magistral Palace of the Order of St John in Malta
Victor Mallia-Milanes (University of Malta), Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and fear of the plague: Culturally conflicting views
William Zammit (University of Malta), Censoring the Hospitallers: The failed attempt at re-printing Ferdinando de Escaño's Propugnaculum Hierosolymitanum in Malta in 1756
Volume 6.2: Cultural and Contact in Western and Northern Europe
Introduction (Jonathan Riley-Smith)
Nikolas Jaspert (University of Heidelberg), Military Orders at the frontier: Permeability and demarcation
Philippe Josserand (University of Nantes), Frontier conflict, military cost and culture: The Master of Santiago and the Islamic border in mid-fourteenth century Spain
Xavier Baecke (Ghent Univeristy), The symbolic power of spiritual knighthood: Discourse and context of the donation of Count Thierry d'Alsace to the Templar Order in county of Flanders
Damien Carraz (University of Clermont-Ferrand), Pragmatic literacy, archival memory, and conflicts in Provence
Karl Borchardt (MGH, Munich), Conflicts and codices: The example of Clm 4620, A collection about the Hospitallers
Simon Phillips (University of Cyprus), Conflicts within the culture of the Hospitaller Order
Nicole Hamonic (University of South Dakota), Founding and financing perpetual chantries at Clerkenwell Priory, 1242-1404
Christie Majoros-Dunnahoe (University of Cardiff), Re-examining the function of the houses of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England
Anthony Delarue (Rome), The use of the double-traversed cross in the English priory of the Order of St John
Helen Nicholson (University of Cardiff), The Templars' estates in the west of Britain in the early fourteenth century
Julia Baldo-Alcoz (University of Navarra), Defensive elements in the Templar and Hospitaller preceptories of the Priory of Navarre
Luís Adão da Fonseca & Maria Cristina Pimenta (CEPESE), The Commandary of Noudar of the Order of Avis in the border with Castile: History and memory
Paula Pinto Costa & Lúcia Maria Cardoso Rosas (University of Porto), Vera Cruz de Marmelar in the XIIIth-XVth centuries: a St. John's commandery as an expression of a cultural memory and territorial appropriation
Mariarosaria Salerno (University of Calabria), The Military Orders and the local population in Italy: links and conflicts
Elena Bellomo (University of Cardiff), The Sforzas, the papacy and control of the Hospitaller priory of Lombardy
Conradin von Planta (Freiburg im Breisgau), Advocacy and "defensio" - the protection of the houses of the Teutonic Order in the region of the upper Rhine during the 13th and 14th centuries
Maria Starnawska (John-Długosz University), The role of the legend of St. Barbara's head in the conflict of the Teutonic Order and Świętopełk, the duke of Pomerania
Anton Caruana Galizia (Newcastle University), The European nobilities and the Order of St. John, 16th - 18th centuries
Renger E. de Bruin (Centraal Museum, Utrecht), The narrow escape of the Teutonic Order bailiwick of Utrecht, 1811-1815
