Editorial committee: Malcolm Barber, Peter Edbury, Anthony Luttrell, Jonathan Phillips, Jonathan Riley-Smith.
First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.
In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to the present day, they were among the richest and most powerful orders of the church in medieval Europe. They founded their own states in Prussia and on the Mediterranean islands of Rhodes and Malta. They are of concern to historians of the Church, art and architecture, government, agriculture, estate management, banking, medicine and warfare, and of the expansion of Europe overseas. The conferences on their history, which have been organized in London every four years, have attracted leading scholars from all over the world. The present volume records the proceedings of the Third Conference in 2000 and is essential reading for those interested in the progress of research on these extraordinary institutions.
Of the thirty papers published in this collection, two deal with the orders in general, while eighteen concentrate on the Hospital of St. John, six on the Temple, and three on the Teutonic Order, together with another on the Order of the Sword Brothers which it absorbed. The preponderance of works on the Hospitallers is perhaps a particular characteristic of this volume, but the fact that most of the papers relate to provincial life, rather than to the headquarters in the east, Prussia, or Malta, accurately reflects modern concerns, as do the contributions on historiography, the papacy, cultural history, and religious life. Examples of new research interests are the paper on bioarchaeology and the two on liturgy.
Author(s): Victor Mallia-Milanes
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 328
City: London
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Editor’s Preface xix
Introduction / Jonathan Riley-Smith xxi
PART I: Historiography 1
1. Hospitaller Historiography: Heritages and Heresies / Anthony T. Luttrell 3
2. A Survey of Research on the History of the Military Orders in Poland in the Middle Ages / Maria Starnawska 13
3. Historiography and History: Medieval Studies on the Military Orders in Spain since 1975 / Luis García-Guijarro Ramos 23
4. The Knights Templar between Theatre and History: Raynouard’s works on the Templars (1805–1813) / Alain Demurger 45
PART II: Liturgy and Fiction, Heraldry and Piety 53
5. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Last Illnesses and Funerary Rites of the Grand Masters of the Order of St. John from Aubusson to the Cotoners / Ann Williams 55
6. The Liturgical Policies of the Hospitallers between the Invention of Printing and the Council of Trent: The Evidence of the Early Printed Breviaries and Missals / Cristina Dondi 63
7. Hospitallers, Mysticism, and Reform in Late-Medieval Strasburg / Karl Borchardt 73
8. Heraldry in Medieval Rhodes: Hospitallers and Others / Anna-Maria Kasdagli 79
9. The Fictional Hospitaller: Images and Stories of the Knights of Malta in Count Jan Potocki’s 'Manuscript Found in Saragossa' / Yuri Stoyanov 87
PART III: Templars, Teutonic Knights, and Other Military Orders 93
10. The Templar Order in North-Western Italy: A General Picture (1142–1312) / Elena Bellomo 95
11. The Templar James of Garrigans: Illuminator and Deserter / Alan Forey 107
12. The University of Paris and the Trial of the Templars / Paul F. Crawford 115
13. A Look through the Keyhole: Templars in Italy from the Trial Testimony / Anne Gilmour-Bryson 123
14. Teutonic Castles in Cilician Armenia: A Reappraisal / Kristian Molin 131
15. The Use of Indulgences by the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages / Axel Ehlers 139
16. Innocent III and the Origins of the Order of Sword Brothers / Barbara Bombi 147
17. The Military Orders and Papal Crusading Propaganda / Rudolf Hiestand 155
18. The Hospitaller and Templar Houses of Périgord: Some Observations / David Bryson 167
19. The Battle of Tannenberg-Grunwald-Žalgiris (1410) as Reflected in Twentieth-Century Monuments / Sven Ekdahl 175
PART IV: Hospitallers 195
20. The Decree of 1262: A Glimpse into the Economic Decision-Making of the Hospitallers / Judith Bronstein 197
21. The Hospitaller Order in Acre and Manueth: The Ceramic Evidence / Edna J. Stern 203
22. Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Latrine Soil from the Thirteenth-Century Hospital of St John at Acre, Israel / Piers D. Mitchell, Jacqui P. Huntley, and Eliezer Stern 213
23. The Hospitallers and the ‘Peasants’ Revolt’ of 1381 Revisited / Helen J. Nicholson 225
24. The Hospitallers and the Kings of Castile in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Carlos Barquero Goñi 235
25. The Visit of the Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus at the Priory of St. John in 1401 / Julian Chrysostomides 241
26. John Kaye, the 'Dread Turk', and the Siege of Rhodes / Theresa M. Vann 245
27. The Hospitaller Fraternity of St. John at SS Johan and Cordula in Cologne / Klaus Militzer 253
28. Hospitaller Commanderies in the Kingdom of Hungary (c. 1150 – c. 1330) / Zsolt Hunyadi 257
29. Frisians and Foreigners in the Hospitaller House of Sneek: Origins and Careers / Johannes Adriaan Mol 269
30. Hospitaller Baroque Culture: The Order of St. John’s Legacy to Early Modern Malta / Victor Mallia-Milanes 279
Select Bibliography 289
Index 297
