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This book features a collection of essays which focus on the Hospitallers' relations with others through military, social, and political channels within the broader Euro-Mediterranean region.
List of contents
Chapter 1Umur of Aydin: Holy War Encounters at Smyrna between Turkish Gazis and the Knights Hospitaller of Rhodes in the mid-14th Century
Christine Isom-VerhaarenChapter 2The Military Conservatism of the Hospitallers during the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
Juho WilskmanChapter 3Hospitaller Lodgings and Auberges on Rhodes after 1309
Anthony LuttrellChapter 4Charity, Obedience and Authority in the Late Medieval Hospital: Leonardo Buonafede's Interventions in the Regula Monacharum
George SummersChapter 5The Mediterranean Acquaintances of the Hospitallers of the English Langue, 1400-1540
Greg O'MalleyChapter 6Oriental Mediterranean social encounters as a framework for the Portuguese Hospitallers
Paula Pinto and Joana LencartChapter 7Hospitallers in a multi-ethnic society. North-eastern Spain (12th -14th centuries
Maria Bonet and Julia PavónChapter 8Crisis, Change and Transformation at the Edge of the World. The Priorate of Dacia after the Fall of Acre (1291-1352)
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About the author
Christie Majoros is an independent scholar who completed a doctorate at Cardiff University. Her research centers on the properties of the Hospitallers in Britain and Ireland and the brethren who inhabited them. Publications include: "Cooking the Books: The Report of Philip de Thame and Financial Crisis in Fourteenth Century Britain," in
The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey (2020), and "Through the Local Lens: Re-Examining the Function of the Hospitallers in England," in
The Military Orders: Culture and Conflict. Vol. 6.2 (2016).
Maria Bonet is professor of Medieval History at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Her research focuses on military orders, particularly the Hospitallers. She also has studied social and economic relationships in medieval Catalonia. Recently she has published "The identity of the hospitallers in the Crown of Aragon and economics (XII-XIII centuries)" in
The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey (2020). or "Organizing Violence. Peace and War in Twelfth Century Catalonia" in
Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic Societies¿ II, (2022). Along with J. Pavon, she co-authored: "Religiosidad de los laicos en torno a la orden del Hospital en la Corona de Aragón" in
Órdenes militares y religiosidad (c. 1150-1550). Ideología, memoria y cultura material (2023).
Julia Pavón is professor of Medieval History, as well as the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2020 in the University of Navarra. Her research has centered on the Kingdom of Navarra during the High Middle Ages, medieval death and the Orders of the Hospital and Temple. She has edited, for instance,
Death and the Medieval Man (2007),
Medieval Queens of Navarra (2014),
The Order of Saint John in Jerusalem. Medieval Panoramas and Peninsular Trajectories with María Bonet (2013) and
Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century. III. Political Theory and Practice (2015).
