1st Edition
The Military Orders Volume VII Piety, Pugnacity and Property
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.
List of Figures
Preface
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Property: landholdings (Malta)
- 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
- Representing Space: Surveying and Drawing Techniques in the Maltese Cabrei of the Order of St. John (XVII-XVIII Century)
- The Economization of Built Property: Urban Houses of the Manoel Foundation in Eighteenth Century Valletta
- The remains of Templar settlements in southern Italy: some case studies
- Collecting Property for the Founding of a Teutonic House in Utrecht (1218-1235)
- Power, Status and Property in the Early Years of the Teutonic Order in Acre
- Piety and Property in Late Medieval and Early Modern Rhodes: The case of Trianda
- A multidisciplinary approach to the production of wine on Templar estates: the Bologna commandery
- The commanderies of the Military Order of Santiago around Campo de Ourique (Portugal) in the Middle Ages: properties, resources and administration
- Treasured Possessions: Aspects of Hospitaller Material Culture, c.1680-c.1720
- The art collections of Hospitaller knights in Malta
- ‘Our Moors’: Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile
- The Hospitallers and their Manumissions of Rhodian and Cypriot Serfs (1409-1459)
- The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530–1798
- Networking at the papal curia as a survival strategy: the Teutonic Order and the crisis of the military orders in the early fourteenth century
- Hospitaller Chapters in the Medieval Priory of Alamania
- Abandoning Piety and Pugnacity? New Military Orders in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
- The Knights Hospitallers of St John in Polish Lands and Rhodes in the late Middle Ages: piety, pugnacity, property, and power on peripheries.
- Property, Piracy, and Pugnacity: Reflections on Venice’s Attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in Early Modern Times
- Variations on a theme: Harry Pirie-Gordon and the Order of Sanctissima Sophia
- The charity of the Order of Santiago at the end of the Middle Ages: The case of the hospital of Alarcón
- The Teutonic Knights, the bishop of Warmia and the relics of the True Cross in Prussia in the second half of the Fourteenth century
- The patron saints of military orders’ churches in Castile and Portugal, 1462-1539
- The Military Orders and the Principality of Antioch: A Help or a Hindrance?
- A Document about the Beginning of the Military Orders’ Involvement in the Reconquista
- From Pugnacity to peace-mongers: The Military Orders protecting property and people in the Latin East
- Hospitaller Pugnacity: 1306-1421
- A Florentine Cleric on Rhodes: Bonsignore Bonsignori’s unpublished account of his 1498 visit
- The Long Siege of Candia (1648-69): the Knights of St John, a Venetian Protectorate, the Ottoman Empire and a Scottish regiment.
George A. Said-Zammit
Daniel Borg & Mevrick Spiteri
Mevrick Spiteri
Property: landholdings elsewhere
Claudia Cundari
Jerem van Duijl
Shlomo Lotan
Simon Phillips
Property and Piety: economic activity and material culture
Giampiero Bagni
Ana Cláudia Silveira
Emanuel Buttigieg & Adriana Mintoff
Theresa Vella
Property and Pugnacity: serfs, slaves and slave-trading
Clara Almagro Vidal
Nicholas Coureas
William Zammit
Property, Piety and Pugnacity: internal politics and vocations
Barbara Bombi
Karl Borchardt
Rory MacLellan
Maria Starnawska and translated by Andrzej Dubina
Victor Mallia-Milanes
Elizabeth Siberry
Piety: charity and spirituality
Jaime García Carpintero López de Mota
Karol Polejowski and Sobieslaw Szybkowski
Paula Pinto Costa, Raquel Torres Jiménez, Joana Lencart
Pugnacity and Property on the frontier
Andrew D. Buck
Alan Forey
Betty Binysh
Anthony Luttrell
Michael Heslop
Matthew Glozier
Index
Biography
Nicholas Morton is a lecturer in history at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research interests include the Crusades, the military orders, Christian-Islamic relations during the medieval period and the Seljuk Turks. He has published extensively on these themes, and his recent monographs include The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East and Encountering Islam on the First Crusade. He is an editor for two Routledge book series: Rulers of the Latin East and The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources and Memory.