The Military Orders Volume I: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick
by Barber,Malcolm; Barber,Malcolm-
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Summary
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations | |
Abbreviations | |
List of Contributors | |
Editor's Preface | |
Introduction | |
The Hospital of St John | |
Pro defensione Terre Sancte: the Development and Exploitation of the Hospitallers' Landed Estate in Essex | p. 3 |
The Character of the Hospitaller Properties in Spain in the Middle Ages | p. 21 |
The Hospitallers and the Castilian-Leonese Monarchy: the Concession of Royal Rights, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries | p. 28 |
Catholic and Protestant Members in the German Grand Priory of the Order of St John: the Development of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg | p. 34 |
A Castle in Cyprus attributable to the Hospital? | p. 42 |
Two Forged Thirteenth-Century Alms-Raising Letters used by the Hospitallers in Franconia | p. 52 |
How Many Miles to Babylon? The Devise des Chemins de Babiloine Redated | p. 57 |
The Hospitallers' Medical Tradition: 1291-1530 | p. 64 |
Documentary and Archaeological Evidence for Greek Settlement in the Countryside of Rhodes in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries | p. 82 |
The Fifteenth-Century Hospital of Rhodes: Tradition and Innovation | p. 89 |
Xenodochium to Sacred Infirmary: the Changing Role of the Hospital of the Order of St John, 1522-1631 | p. 97 |
Corsairs Parading Crosses: the Hospitallers and Venice, 1530-1798 | p. 103 |
'A Parish at Sea': Spiritual Concerns aboard the Order of St John's Galleys in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | p. 113 |
The Order of St John in England, 1827-1858 | p. 121 |
The Order of the Temple | |
Hugh of Payns and the 1129 Damascus Crusade | p. 141 |
Templar Castles on the Road to the Jordan | p. 148 |
The Architecture of the Knights Templars in England | p. 167 |
The Surrender of Gaston and the Rule of the Templars | p. 179 |
The Templars in Cyprus | p. 189 |
Towards a Profile of the Templars in the Early Fourteenth Century | p. 196 |
Testimony of Non-Templar Witnesses in Cyprus | p. 205 |
The Suppression of the Templars in Cyprus according to the Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas | p. 212 |
The Teutonic Order | |
Eight Hundred Years of the Teutonic Order | p. 223 |
Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen, and the Teutonic Order in the Kingdom of Sicily | p. 236 |
Patronage of Elizabeth in the High Middle Ages in Hospitals of the Teutonic Order in the Bailiwick of Franconia | p. 245 |
The Teutonic Order confronts Mongols and Turks | p. 253 |
The Treatment of Prisoners of War during the Fighting between the Teutonic Order and Lithuania | p. 263 |
The Recruitment of Brethren for the Teutonic Order in Livonia, 1237-1562 | p. 270 |
Hospitality and Chivalry in the Teutonic Order | p. 278 |
The Spanish Orders | |
Possessions and Incomes of the Order of Calatrava in the Kingdom of Leon in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries | p. 283 |
Agrarian Structure in the Calatravan Lordships of the Southern Meseta of Castile in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries | p. 288 |
Organization of Land in the Peninsular South-East: the Commandery of Segura de la Sierra of the Order of Santiago, 1246-1350 | p. 296 |
Architecture and Power: the Seats of the Priories of the Order of Santiago | p. 302 |
The Perceptions and Role of the Military Orders | |
The Confraternity of La Sauve-Majeure: a Foreshadowing of the Military Order? | p. 313 |
Medical Knowledge in the Crusading Armies: the Evidence of Albert of Aachen and Others | p. 320 |
Crusaders and Patrons: the Influence of the Crusades on the Patronage of the Order of St Lazarus in England | p. 327 |
The Military Orders in Mainland Greece | p. 333 |
Knights and Lovers: the Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the Thirteenth Century | p. 340 |
The Lawyers of the Military Orders | p. 346 |
Philippe de Mezieres and the Idea of Crusade | p. 358 |
Victorian Perceptions of the Military Orders | p. 365 |
Select Bibliography | p. 373 |
Index | p. 376 |
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