Full Description
This volume contains papers from the fifth conference on the military orders held in London. It deals with the archaeological investigations at the Hospitaller castle at al-Marqab and examines aspects of the history of the military orders in the Latin East and the Mediterranean lands.
Contents
Introduction; 1: The Military—Religious Orders: A Medieval 'School for Administrators'?; 1: The Latin East; 2: Archaeological and Fresco Research in the Castle Chapel at al-Marqab: A Preliminary Report on the Results of the First Seasons; 3: The Two Hospitaller Chapter Houses at al-Marqab: A Study in Architectural Reconstruction; 4: Meat Consumption and Animal Keeping in the Citadel at al-Marqab: A Preliminary Report 1; 5: The Order of St Thomas of Canterbury in Acre; 6: Templars, Franks, Syrians and the Double Pact of 1244; 7: Royal and Papal Interference in the Dispatch of Supplies to the East by the Military Orders in the Later Thirteenth Century; 8: The Hospitallers and Charles I of Anjou: Political and Economic Relations between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Holy Land 1; 9: King James II of Cyprus and the Hospitallers: Evidence from the Livre des Remembrances; 2: Hospitaller Rhodes and Malta; 10: Smoke and Fire Signals at Rhodes: 1449; 11: Success and Failure in the Practice of Power by Pere Ramon Sacosta, Master of the Hospital (1461-67); 12: Battlefield Tourism: A Description of the 1480 Siege of Rhodes; 13: Woven Tapestries: Manifestations of Grandeur, Politics and Power as well as Pictorial Sources for Hospitaller History: A Re-identification; 14: Politics and Power in Grand Master Verdalle's Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem (1588); 15: Towards the End of the Order of the Hospital: Reflections on the Views of Two Venetian Brethren, Antonio Miari and Ottavio Benvenuti; 3: The British Isles; 16: The Military Orders in Wales and the Welsh March in the Middle Ages 1; 17: The Military Orders at the Court of King John; 18: Walking a Thin Line: Hospitaller Priors, Politics and Power in Late Medieval England; 19: Procedure, Political Influence and Preceptorial Appointments in the Hospitaller Priory of England: The Templecombe Disputes of 1463-79; 4: Italy; 20: Sta Maria in Carbonara in Viterbo: History and Architecture of a Templar Preceptory in Northern Lazio; 21: The Spanish Military Orders in Italy: Initial Remarks on Patronage and Properties (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries); 22: The Hospitallers in Southern Italy: Families and Power; 23: The Teutonic Order in Italy: An Example of the Diplomatic Ability of the Military Orders; 5: Northern and Eastern Europe; 24: The Counts of Brienne and the Military Orders in the Thirteenth Century 1; 25: A Geography of Power: The Hospitallers in the Territorial Policies of the Bishops of Strasbourg in Lower Alsace in the Thirteenth Century; 26: The Priors of the Knights Hospitaller from the Piast Dynasty in the Province of Bohemia: Hereditary Princes or Ecclesiastical Dignitaries?; 27: Royal Power and the Hungarian—Slavonian Hospitaller Priors before the Mid-fifteenth Century; 28: Politics, Diplomacy and the Recruitment of Mercenaries before the Battle of Tannenberg—Grunwald—Žalgiris in 1410; 29: Power to the Educated? Priest-brethren and their Education, using Data from the Utrecht Bailiwick of the Teutonic Order (1350-1600); 30: Hidden in the Bushes: The Teutonic Order of the Bailiwick of Utrecht in the 1780-1806 Revolutionary Period; 6: The Iberian Peninsula; 31: Troubles and Tensions before the Trial: The Last Years of the Castilian Templar Province; 32: The Relationship between the Crown and the Monastery of Santos during the Middle Ages; 33: The Recruitment of the Portuguese Military Orders: A Sociological Profile (1385—1521); 34: The Portuguese Military Orders, the Royal Power and the Maritime Expansion (Fifteenth Century); 35: The Port City of Setúbal (Portugal) under the Control of the Order of Santiago (1400-1550); 36: Inquiring about Honour in the Portuguese Military Orders (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) 1; 7: Templar Mythology; 37: 'From the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant to Freemasonry and the Priory of Sion': An Introduction to the 'After-History' of the Templars; 38: The Myth of Secret History, or 'It's not just the Templars involved in absolutely everything'
