The Military Orders. [Volume 1.] Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick

List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xi
List of Contributors xiii
Editor\'s Preface xix
Introduction / Jean Richard xxi
Part I. The Hospital of St. John
1. \'Pro defensione Terre Sancte\': the Development and Exploitation of the Hospitallers\' Landed Estate in Essex / Michael Gervers 3
2. The Character of the Hospitaller Properties in Spain in the Middle Ages / H. J. A. Sire 21
3. The Hospitallers and the Castilian-Leonese Monarchy: the Concession of Royal Rights, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries / Carlos Barquero Goñi 28
4. Catholic and Protestant Members in the German Grand Priory of the Order of St John: the Development of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg / Walter G. Rödel 34
5. A Castle in Cyprus attributable to the Hospital? / Peter Megaw 42
6. Two Forged Thirteenth-Century Alms-Raising Letters used by the Hospitallers in Franconia / Karl Borchardt 52
7. How Many Miles to Babylon? The \'Devise des Chemins de Babiloine\' Redated / Robert Irwin 57
8. The Hospitallers\' Medical Tradition: 1291-1530 / Anthony Luttrell 64
9. Documentary and Archaeological Evidence for Greek Settlement in the Countryside of Rhodes in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries / Kara Hattersley-Smith 82
10. The Fifteenth-Century Hospital of Rhodes: Tradition and Innovation / Fotini Karassava-Tsilingiri 89
11. \'Xenodochium\' to Sacred Infirmary: the Changing Role of the Hospital of the Order of St John, 1522-1631 / Ann Williams 97
12. Corsairs Parading Crosses: the Hospitallers and Venice, 1530-1798 / Victor Mallia-Milanes 103
13. \'A Parish at Sea\': Spiritual Concerns aboard the Order of St John\'s Galleys in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / David Allen 113
14. The Order of St John in England, 1827-1858 / Jonathan Riley-Smith 121
Part II. The Order of the Temple
15. Hugh of Payns and the 1129 Damascus Crusade / Jonathan Phillips 141
16. Templar Castles on the Road to the Jordan / Denys Pringle 148
17. The Architecture of the Knights Templars in England / Pál Ritoók 167
18. The Surrender of Gaston and the Rule of the Templars / Judi Upton-Ward 179
19. The Templars in Cyprus / Peter Edbury 189
20. Towards a Profile of the Templars in the Early Fourteenth Century / Alan Forey 196
21. Testimony of Non-Templar Witnesses in Cyprus / Anne Gilmour-Bryson 205
22. The Suppression of the Templars in Cyprus according to the Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas / Annetta Iliéva 212
Part III. The Teutonic Order
23. Eight Hundred Years of the Teutonic Order / Udo Arnold 223
24. Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen, and the Teutonic Order in the Kingdom of Sicily / James M. Powell 236
25. Patronage of Elizabeth in the High Middle Ages in Hospitals of the Teutonic Order in the Bailiwick of Franconia / Klaus Guth 245
26. The Teutonic Order confronts Mongols and Turks / Jürgen Sarnowsky 253
27. The Treatment of Prisoners of War during the Fighting between the Teutonic Order and Lithuania / Sven Ekdahl 263
28. The Recruitment of Brethren for the Teutonic Order in Livonia, 1237-1562 / Klaus Militzer 270
29. Hospitality and Chivalry in the Teutonic Order / Bernhard Demel 278
Part IV. The Spanish Orders
30. Possessions and Incomes of the Order of Calatrava in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Carlos de Ayala Martínez 283
31. Agrarian Structure in the Calatravan Lordships of the Southern Meseta of Castile in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Enrique Rodríguez-Picavea Matilla 288
32. Organization of Land in the Peninsular South-East: the Commandery of Segura de la Sierra of the Order of Santiago, 1246-1350 / José Vicente Matellanes Merchán 296
33. Architecture and Power: the Seats of the Priories of the Order of Santiago / Aurora Ruiz Mateos, Jesús Espino Nuño and Olga Pérez Monzón 302
Part V. The Perceptions and Role of the Military Orders
34. The Confraternity of La Sauve-Majeure: a Foreshadowing of the Military Order? / Marcus Bull 313
35. Medical Knowledge in the Crusading Armies: the Evidence of Albert of Aachen and Others / Susan Edgington 320
36. Crusaders and Patrons: the Influence of the Crusades on the Patronage of the Order of St Lazarus in England / John Walker 327
37. The Military Orders in Mainland Greece / Peter Lock 333
38. Knights and Lovers: the Military Orders in the Romantic Literature of the Thirteenth Century / Helen Nicholson 340
39. The Lawyers of the Military Orders / James Brundage 346
40. Philippe de Mézières and the Idea of Crusade / Joan Williamson 358
41. Victorian Perceptions of the Military Orders / Elizabeth Siberry 365
Select Bibliography 373
Index 376