The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell

by Borchardt,Karl

• ISBN13: 9780754662754
• ISBN10: 0754662756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday in October 2007 twenty-three colleagues from ten different countries have contributed to this volume.The first section focuses on the crusading period in the Holy Land, considering the Hospital in Jerusalem, relations with the Assassins, finances, indulgences, transportation and the careers of the brothers and knights. The second and third sections move to the later Middle Ages, when the Hospitallers had their centre on Rhodes, and military and charitable activities in the East had to be supported with men and money from the West. The papers in the second section consider the Hospitallers on Rhodes, relations between Rhodes and the West and plans for crusades, while the third section includes papers on the Hospitallers in the Iberian Peninsula and in Hungary, the territorial administration of the Order of Montesa in Valencia, a plan to transfer the headquarters of the Teutonic Order from Prussia to Frisia, and a Hospitaller reconsideration of warfare and learning on the eve of the council of Trent. The final paper proposes new definitions and guidelines for future work on the military-religious orders.The authors include both well-known experts and younger scholars who promise to follow in the footsteps of Anthony Luttrell and to continue research into the Hospitallers and their fellow orders, these peculiar European communities avant la lettre.

Table of Contents

Editor's preface

Introduction: in honour of Anthony Luttrell

The Crusader Period

A note on Jerusalem's Bimaristan and Jerusalem's hospital

The Templars, the Syrian Assassins and King Amalric of Jerusalem

The old French William of Tyre, the Templars and the Assassin envoy

Caring for the sick or dying for the Cross? The granting of Crusade indulgences to the Hospitallers

The dispute between the Hospitallers and the Bishop of Worcester about the church of Down Ampney: an unpublished letter of justice of Pope John XXI (1276)

Hospitaller ships and transportation across the Mediterranean

A Mediterranean career in the late 13th century: the Hospitaller Grand Commander Boniface of Calamandrana

Judicial processes in the military orders: the use of imprisonment and chaining

Rhodes and The Latin East

The migration of Syrians and Cypriots to Hospitaller Rhodes in the 14th and 15th centuries

Hospitaller Rhodes: the epigraphic evidence

Historical memory in an Aegean monastery: St John of Patmos and the emirate of Menteshe

Emmanuele Piloti and crusading in the Latin East

The convent and the West: visitations in the Order of the Hospital of St John in the 15th century

British and Irish visitors to and residents in Rhodes, 1409-1522

The Military-Religious Orders in the West

Scribes and notaries in 12th- and 13th-century Hospitaller charters from England

The military activity of the Hospitallers in the medieval kingdom of Hungary (13th-14th centuries)

The Valencian bailiwick of Cervera in Hospitaller and early Montesian times, ca1230-ca1330

La règle de l'ancianitas dans l'ordre de l'hôpital, le prieuré de Catalogne et la Castelliana de Amposta aux 14 et 15 siècles

Los Hospitalarios y los últimos reyes de Navarra (1483-1512)

Friesland under the Teutonic Order? A fantastic plan from 1517

The Hospitaller Castiglione's synthesis of warfare, learning and lay piety on the eve of the Council of Trent

Towards a history of military-religious orders

Anthony Luttrell bibliography

Index

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