List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Editor's Preface

Address by Father Bernhard Demel, OT

Introduction

Jonathan Riley-Smith

Part I Welfare

1 A Twelfth-Century description of the Jerusalem Hospital

Benjamin Z. Kedar

Appendix: A Provisional Edition of Clm. 4620, fol. 132v-139v

2 Medical Care in the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem

Susan Edgington

3 Arabic Medicine and Hospitals in the Middle Ages: a Probable Model for the Military Orders' Care of the Sick

Christopher Toll

4 The Archaeological Approach to the Study of Disease in the Crusader States, as employed at Le Petit Gerin

Piers Mitchell

5 The Role of Hospitals in the Teutonic Order

Klaus Militzer

6 Welfare and Warfare in the Teutonic Order: a Survey

Bernhard Demel, OT

7 Knightly Hospitallers or Crusading Knights? Decisive Factors for the Spread of the Teutonic Knights in the Rhineland and the Low Countries, 1216-1300

Klaus van Eickels

Part II Warfare

8 Archbishop Henry of Reims and the Militarization of the Hospitallers

Jonathan Phillips

9 Templar Castles between Jaffa and Jerusalem

Denys Pringle

10 Before William of Tyre: European Reports on the Military Orders' Deeds in the East, 1150-1185

Helen Nicholson

11 Horses and Crossbows: Two Important Warfare Advantages of the Teutonic Order in Prussia

Sven Ekdahl

12 The Hospitallers during Clement V's Pontificate: the Spoiled Sons of the Papacy?

Sophia Menache

13 English Contributions to the Hospitaller Castle at Bodrum in Turkey: 1407-1437

Anthony Luttrell

14 The Price of Hospitaller Crusading Warfare in the Eighteenth Century: the Maltese Consulate on Zante

Victor Mallia-Milanes

Part III Life Within the Military Orders

15 Literacy and Learning in the Military Orders during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Alan Forey

16 A New Edition of the Latin and French Rule of the Temple

Simonetta Cerrini

17 Wind Beneath the Wings: Subordinate Headquarters Officials in the Hospital and the Temple from the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries

Jochen Burgtorf

18 The Sergents of the Military Order of Santiago

Carlos de Ayala Martinez

19 Hospitaller and Templar Commanderies in Bohemia and Moravia: their Structure and Architectural Forms

Libor Jan

Vit Jesensky

20 Christ, Santiago and Avis: an Approach to the Rules of the Portuguese Military Orders in the Late Middle Ages

Paula Pinto Costa

Antonio Pestana de Vasconcelos

21 Fifteenth-Century Hospitaller Architecture on Rhodes: Patrons and Master Masons

Fotini Karassava-Tsilingiri

22 `The Rights of the Treasury': the Financial Administration of the Hospitallers on Fifteenth-Century Rhodes, 1421-1522

Jurgen Sarnowsky

23 Hospitaller Record Keeping and Archival Practices

Theresa M. Vann

Part IV Relations with the Outside World

24 Exemption in the Temple, the Hospital and the Teutonic Order: Shortcomings of the Institutional Approach

Luis Garcia-Guijarro Ramos

25 The Hospitallers in Pomerania: Between the Priories of Bohemia and Alamania

Karl Borchardt

26 The Beginnings of the Military Orders in Frisia

Johannes A. Mol

27 Alfonso X and the Teutonic Order: an Example of the Role of the International Military Orders in Mid Thirteenth-Century Castile

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia

28 The Trial of the Templars Revisited

Malcolm Barber

29 `An Island Called Rhodes' and the `Way' to Jerusalem: Change and Continuity in Hospitaller Exordia in the Later Middle Ages

Mark Dupuy

30 The Hospitallers and the Kings of Navarre in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Carlos Barquero Goni

31 Strategies of Survival: the Military Orders and the Reformation in Switzerland

Christoph T. Maier

32 The Order of St John as a `School for Ambassadors' in Counter-Reformation Europe

David F. Allen

33 The Bailiwick of Brandenburg and the Prussian Monarchy, 1701-1810

Johannes Schellakowsky

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Index