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
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
