The genesis of this volume lies in the online conference held by Nottingham Trent University in 2022. This was the eighth in the series of military orders conferences organised since 1992. The conference fostered rich exchange and debate, as reflected in the twenty-three chapters in this book.
The Military Orders Volume VIII – organised around five thematic axes: interactions, administration, religion, perceptions, and approaches – offers a broad coverage in terms of geographical variety, chronological spread, and thematic focus, as well as a wide variety of approaches and methodologies. As such, this book shows the dynamism of the study of the military orders – a subject of continued scholarly focus and widespread popular interest – and holds the promise for many more exciting initiatives in the future.
This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the military religious orders and the crusades, as well as all those interested more generally in the medieval and early modern world.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1
Editorial Preface
Emanuel Buttigieg and Clara Almagro Vidal
Part 1: Interactions
Chapter 2
Ubicunque orbis terrarum: the military orders across the globe
Helen Nicholson
Chapter 3
Reconsidering the military orders and Scottish royal identity, ca.1150-1300
Gordon Reynolds
Chapter 4
Fortified positions of the Military Orders in the Amanos and Cilicia region: Baghras, Trapesac, Çalan, Amuda and Silifke Castles
Muhittin Çeken
Chapter 5
The 1522 siege of Rhodes and Portugal: Background and impact
Joana Lencart & Paula Pinto
Chapter 6
Of battles and escorts: The Hospitallers in the wider tapestry of the 17th century
Emanuel Buttigieg
Chapter 7
Honour and discord in the Spanish Council of Military Orders: Prosecutors versus secretaries in the quest for institutional pre-eminence, 1593-1691
Hector Linares
Part 2: Administrations
Chapter 8
The election of heads of military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries
Alan Forey
Chapter 9
The English Hospitallers in holy war and papal schism, 1378-1417
Anthony Luttrell
Chapter 10
Appointing power: The military orders as lords of
Muslim communities in medieval Iberia
Clara Almagro Vidal
Chapter 11
The Hospitallers and the burgesses of Rhodes in the 14th and 15th centuries
Nicholas Coureas
Chapter 12
The ovens of Augusta: Naval victualling in Sicily in the 17th and 18th centuries
Ray Gatt
Part 3: Religion
Chapter 13
A Templar letter to Countess Sybil of Flanders: Osto of Saint-Omer and the Maiden of Carcassonne
Miriam Rita Tessera
Chapter 14
The Knights Hospitaller in the monastic landscape of medieval Silesia
Maria Starnawska
Chapter 15
Multiple environments for the military orders according to Jacques de Vitry
Jessalynn Bird
Chapter 16
‘Universal and Particular’: Framing the Order of St John’s post-Tridentine devotions in the context of a universal Church
Matthias Ebejer
Chapter 17
From Malta to eternity: The Order of St John and its visual culture of death
Christian Attard
Part 4: Perceptions
Chapter 18
The Hospitallers and the Templars in Arabic Sources: Muslim attitudes and perceptions
Jesse W. Izzo
Chapter 19
The deteriorating image of the Templars: A paradox
Sophia Menache
Chapter 20
The Hospitallers in a wider world
Victor Mallia-Milanes
Chapter 21
John Taaffe: Poet and historian of the Order of St John
Elizabeth Siberry
Part 5: Approaches
Chapter 22
Aslackby Templar preceptory: A 2021 research excavation to establish its location and layout
Christer Carlsson
Chapter 23
Florentine Renaissance influences and construction techniques in the Hospitaller auberges of the langues (Valletta, Malta)
Valentina Burgassi
Chapter 24
Sleeping memories: Preliminary remarks on the langues of the Order of St John and their archives (16th-18th centuries)
Valeria Vanesio
