First published 1994 by Ashgate Publishing.
Editorial committee: Peter Edbury, Anthony Luttrell, Jonathan Riley-Smith.
This volume contains papers from a conference held on 3-6 September 1992 at the Museum of St John, St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London, under the auspices of the London Centre for the Study of the Crusades. The perception of the organizers that there is a growing interest in, and enthusiasm for, the study of military orders was fully borne out. Scholars from twenty countries took part and, between them, presented forty-eight papers encompassing a vast geographical spread from Lithuania to Spain and from England to the Crusader States. It was particularly pleasing to welcome colleagues from eastern Europe now able to participate much more readily than in the past.
The conference covered every period from the origins of the military orders in the eleventh and twelfth centuries down to the present day, and a large proportion of the papers has been published here, following the overall conference format in which four main papers were given, supported by shorter communications. The event culminated in a visit to the two magnificent timber-framed barns at Cressing Temple in Essex, where the whole site of the Templar preceptory is being surveyed and excavated. It is hoped that this conference will be the first of a series, to be held at four-year intervals, and that the research presented here will stimulate further work on this multifaceted subject.
Author(s): Malcolm Barber (ed.)
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XXVIII+400
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xi
List of Contributors xiii
Editor's Preface xix
Introduction / Jean Richard xxi
Part I. The Hospital of St. John
1. 'Pro defensione Terre Sancte': the Development and Exploitation of the Hospitallers' Landed Estate in Essex / Michael Gervers 3
2. The Character of the Hospitaller Properties in Spain in the Middle Ages / H. J. A. Sire 21
3. The Hospitallers and the Castilian-Leonese Monarchy: the Concession of Royal Rights, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries / Carlos Barquero Goñi 28
4. Catholic and Protestant Members in the German Grand Priory of the Order of St John: the Development of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg / Walter G. Rödel 34
5. A Castle in Cyprus attributable to the Hospital? / Peter Megaw 42
6. Two Forged Thirteenth-Century Alms-Raising Letters used by the Hospitallers in Franconia / Karl Borchardt 52
7. How Many Miles to Babylon? The 'Devise des Chemins de Babiloine' Redated / Robert Irwin 57
8. The Hospitallers' Medical Tradition: 1291-1530 / Anthony Luttrell 64
9. Documentary and Archaeological Evidence for Greek Settlement in the Countryside of Rhodes in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries / Kara Hattersley-Smith 82
10. The Fifteenth-Century Hospital of Rhodes: Tradition and Innovation / Fotini Karassava-Tsilingiri 89
11. 'Xenodochium' to Sacred Infirmary: the Changing Role of the Hospital of the Order of St John, 1522-1631 / Ann Williams 97
12. Corsairs Parading Crosses: the Hospitallers and Venice, 1530-1798 / 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 / David Allen 113
14. The Order of St John in England, 1827-1858 / Jonathan Riley-Smith 121
Part II. The Order of the Temple
15. Hugh of Payns and the 1129 Damascus Crusade / Jonathan Phillips 141
16. Templar Castles on the Road to the Jordan / Denys Pringle 148
17. The Architecture of the Knights Templars in England / Pál Ritoók 167
18. The Surrender of Gaston and the Rule of the Templars / Judi Upton-Ward 179
19. The Templars in Cyprus / Peter Edbury 189
20. Towards a Profile of the Templars in the Early Fourteenth Century / Alan Forey 196
21. Testimony of Non-Templar Witnesses in Cyprus / Anne Gilmour-Bryson 205
22. The Suppression of the Templars in Cyprus according to the Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas / Annetta Iliéva 212
Part III. The Teutonic Order
23. Eight Hundred Years of the Teutonic Order / Udo Arnold 223
24. Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen, and the Teutonic Order in the Kingdom of Sicily / James M. Powell 236
25. Patronage of Elizabeth in the High Middle Ages in Hospitals of the Teutonic Order in the Bailiwick of Franconia / Klaus Guth 245
26. The Teutonic Order confronts Mongols and Turks / Jürgen Sarnowsky 253
27. The Treatment of Prisoners of War during the Fighting between the Teutonic Order and Lithuania / Sven Ekdahl 263
28. The Recruitment of Brethren for the Teutonic Order in Livonia, 1237-1562 / Klaus Militzer 270
29. Hospitality and Chivalry in the Teutonic Order / Bernhard Demel 278
Part IV. The Spanish Orders
30. Possessions and Incomes of the Order of Calatrava in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Carlos de Ayala Martínez 283
31. Agrarian Structure in the Calatravan Lordships of the Southern Meseta of Castile in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Enrique Rodríguez-Picavea Matilla 288
32. Organization of Land in the Peninsular South-East: the Commandery of Segura de la Sierra of the Order of Santiago, 1246-1350 / José Vicente Matellanes Merchán 296
33. Architecture and Power: the Seats of the Priories of the Order of Santiago / Aurora Ruiz Mateos, Jesús Espino Nuño and Olga Pérez Monzón 302
Part V. The Perceptions and Role of the Military Orders
34. The Confraternity of La Sauve-Majeure: a Foreshadowing of the Military Order? / Marcus Bull 313
35. Medical Knowledge in the Crusading Armies: the Evidence of Albert of Aachen and Others / Susan Edgington 320
36. Crusaders and Patrons: the Influence of the Crusades on the Patronage of the Order of St Lazarus in England / John Walker 327
37. The Military Orders in Mainland Greece / Peter Lock 333
38. Knights and Lovers: the Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the Thirteenth Century / Helen Nicholson 340
39. The Lawyers of the Military Orders / James Brundage 346
40. Philippe de Mézières and the Idea of Crusade / Joan Williamson 358
41. Victorian Perceptions of the Military Orders / Elizabeth Siberry 365
Select Bibliography 373
Index 376
