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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |44 pages
Property: landholdings (in Malta)
chapter 1|17 pages
The properties and landed possessions of the Knights of St John in Malta
chapter 2|15 pages
Representing space
chapter 3|12 pages
The economization of built property
part |46 pages
Property: landholdings elsewhere
part |42 pages
Property and Piety: economic activity and material culture
chapter 8|11 pages
A multidisciplinary approach to the production of wine on Templar estates
chapter 9|12 pages
The commanderies of the Military Order of Santiago around Campo de Ourique (Portugal) in the Middle Ages
part |36 pages
Property and pugnacity: serfs, slaves and slave-trading
chapter 14|12 pages
The Faith Triumphant
part |74 pages
Property, piety and pugnacity: internal politics and vocations
chapter 15|22 pages
Networking at the papal curia as a survival strategy
chapter 17|10 pages
Abandoning piety and pugnacity?
chapter 18|9 pages
The Knights Hospitallers of St John in Polish lands and Rhodes in the Late Middle Ages
chapter 19|10 pages
Property, piracy, and pugnacity
part |36 pages
Piety: charity and spirituality
chapter 21|11 pages
The charity of the Order of Santiago at the end of the Middle Ages
part |73 pages
Pugnacity and property on the frontier