The Military Religious Orders

The military religious orders were initially established in the twelfth century to protect western pilgrims in the Holy Land. They later helped to defend the crusader states, participated in the Iberian Reconquista, and eventually played a significant role in warfare, charity, commerce, colonization, and cross-cultural encounters in Europe, the Mediterranean, and even the New World. The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory stimulates research on this fascinating phenomenon.

The scope of this series is intentionally broad: book proposals are welcome on any aspect of the orders’ history, both medieval and modern, as well as on other institutions linked to the crusading movement (military confraternities, orders of chivalry and mercenary companies involved in crusading etc.). Proposals may draw from a wide range of disciplines, and may consider any of the orders’ geographical zones of operation. We are happy to consider proposals for monographs, thematically coherent collections of articles, as well as critical editions and translations of primary sources (target length per volume 100,000 to 150,000 words).

If you would like to submit a proposal for this series, please email the Editors: Jochen Burgtorf (California State University, Fullerton): jburgtorf@fullerton.edu; Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University): nicholas.morton@ntu.ac.uk; and Emanuel Buttigieg (University of Malta): emanuel.buttigieg@um.edu.mt.

Editorial Board: Adrian Boas (University of Haifa, Israel) * Paul Crawford (California University of Pennsylvania, USA) * Daniel Gullo (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, USA) * Philippe Josserand (Université de Nantes, France) * Juhan Kreem (Tallinna Linnarchiiv, Estonia) * Helen Nicholson (Cardiff University, UK) * Jürgen Sarnowsky (Universität Hamburg, Germany) * Kristjan Toomaspoeg (Università del Salento, Italy)

Incorporating The Hospitaller Sources Project. 

In association with The Langue of Italy Project. Scientific Committee: Giampiero Bagni (University of Bologna, Italy) * Federico Bulfone Gransinigh (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) * Valentina Burgassi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France) * Chiara Cecalupo (Pontifico Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy) * Vito Ricci (University of Bari, Italy) * Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta).