ABSTRACT

The Military Orders essay collections arising from the quadrennial conferences held at Clerkenwell in London have come to represent an international point of reference for scholars. This present volume brings together twenty-nine papers given at the seventh iteration of this event. The studies offered here cover regions as disparate as Prussia, Iberia and the Eastern Mediterranean and chronologically span topics from the Twelfth to the Twentieth century. They draw attention to little used textual and non-textual sources, advance challenging new methodologies, and help to place these military-religious institutions in a broader context.  

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |44 pages

Property: landholdings (in Malta)

chapter 1|17 pages

The properties and landed possessions of the Knights of St John in Malta

An analysis of Cabrei 290 and 307, conserved at the National Library of Malta

chapter 2|15 pages

Representing space

Surveying and drawing techniques in the Maltese cabrei of the Order of St John (XVII–XVIII century)

chapter 3|12 pages

The economization of built property

Urban houses of the Manoel Foundation in eighteenth-century Valletta

part |42 pages

Property and Piety: economic activity and material culture

chapter 10|11 pages

Treasured possessions

Aspects of Hospitaller material culture, c.1680–c.1720

part |36 pages

Property and pugnacity: serfs, slaves and slave-trading

chapter 12|12 pages

‘Our Moors’

Military orders and unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile

chapter 14|12 pages

The Faith Triumphant

Muslim converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530–1798

part |74 pages

Property, piety and pugnacity: internal politics and vocations

chapter 15|22 pages

Networking at the papal curia as a survival strategy

The Teutonic Order and the crisis of the military orders in the early fourteenth century

chapter 17|10 pages

Abandoning piety and pugnacity?

New military orders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

chapter 18|9 pages

The Knights Hospitallers of St John in Polish lands and Rhodes in the Late Middle Ages

Piety, pugnacity, property, and power on peripheries

chapter 19|10 pages

Property, piracy, and pugnacity

Reflections on Venice’s attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in early modern times

chapter 20|10 pages

Variations on a theme

Harry Pirie-Gordon and the Order of Sanctissima Sophia

part |73 pages

Pugnacity and property on the frontier

chapter 24|13 pages

The Military Orders and the principality of Antioch

A help or a hindrance?

chapter 26|19 pages

From pugnacity to peace-mongers

The military orders protecting property and people in the Latin East 1

chapter 27|7 pages

Hospitaller pugnacity

1306–1421 1

chapter 28|16 pages

A Florentine cleric on Rhodes

Bonsignore Bonsignori’s unpublished account of his 1498 visit

chapter 29|11 pages

The long siege of Candia (1648–69)

The Knights of St John, a Venetian Protectorate, the Ottoman Empire and a Scottish regiment