1st Edition

The Countryside Of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306-1423 Original Texts And English Summaries

By Anthony Luttrell, Greg O'Malley Copyright 2019
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

The Countryside of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306–1423 explores the main themes of settlement, population and defence of the countryside of Rhodes from 1306 to 1423, approximately halfway through the period of Hospitaller rule. Based largely on the Hospital’s Rhodian archive, this book is the scientific presentation of 208 documents brought together with detailed English summaries to help readers... Read more

Figures

Preface

Introduction

Monies, Measures, Dates

Glossary

Countryside

1. Byzantine Background

2. Administration and Defence

3. Settlement, Economy, Society

4. Religious and Cultural Life

Appendix: Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Description of Rhodes

Documents

Sources

Manuscripts

Publications

Index

Biography



Anthony Luttrell was educated at Oxford and has held teaching or research posts in many universities. He is currently an honorary research associate at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway College. His sixty-five years of study have resulted in over 250 publications, many gathered in the six volumes of his collected studies published in Routledge’s Variorum series, the most recent being Studies on the Hospitallers after 1306: Rhodes and the West (2007). His other publications include The Town of Rhodes 1306–1356 (2003); Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages, with Helen J. Nicholson (2006); Sources for Turkish History in the Hospitallers’ Rhodian Archive 1389–1422 (2008), with Elizabeth Zachariadou; and, with Karl Borchardt and Ekhard Schöffler, Documents Concerning Cyprus from the Hospitallers’ Rhodian Archives: 1409–1459 (2011).



Gregory O’Malley is an independent scholar. He was educated in London and Cambridge. He has published The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue, 1460–1565 (2005) and a number of articles on the Hospitallers born in the British Isles on their links with the Mediterranean and on the Hospitallers’ activities during the later Rhodian period.