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The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory


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The military religious orders were initially established in the twelfth century to care for and protect western pilgrims in the Holy Land. They later helped to defend the crusader states, participated in the Iberian Reconquista, and eventually played a significant role in warfare, charity, commerce, colonization, and cross-cultural encounters in Europe, the Mediterranean World, and even the New World. The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory stimulates research on this fascinating phenomenon.

The scope of this series is intentionally broad: book proposals are welcome on any aspect of the orders’ history, both medieval and modern. They may draw from a wide range of disciplines, and may consider any of the orders’ geographical zones of operation. We are happy to consider proposals for monographs, thematically coherent collections of articles, as well as critical editions and translations of primary sources (target length per volume 100,000 to 150,000 words).

If you would like to submit a proposal for this series, please email the General Editors: Jochen Burgtorf (California State University, Fullerton, USA): [email protected] and Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University, UK): [email protected]

Editorial Board: Adrian Boas (University of Haifa, Israel) * Paul Crawford (California University of Pennsylvania, USA) * Daniel Gullo (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, USA) * Philippe Josserand (Université de Nantes, France) * Juhan Kreem (Tallinna Linnarchiiv, Estonia) * Helen Nicholson (Cardiff University, UK) * Jürgen Sarnowsky (Universität Hamburg, Germany) * Kristjan Toomaspoeg (Università del Salento, Italy)

Incorporating The Hospitaller Sources Project. Associate Editor: Emanuel Buttigieg (University of Malta)

In association with The Langue of Italy Project. Scientific Committee: Giampiero Bagni (University of Bologna, Italy) * Federico Bulfone Gransinigh (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) * Valentina Burgassi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France) * Chiara Cecalupo (Pontifico Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy) * Vito Ricci (University of Bari, Italy) * Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta).

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The Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

The Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Ray Gatt
May 14, 2024

This book details the origin of the Grand Hospitaller Priory of Messina. It discusses a breadth of themes, such as the historiography, the Hospitaller’s European commandery and Sicilian patrimony, its management and organization in the seventeenth century, its religious practices, and the prioral ...

Templars in Bologna: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Templars in Bologna: A Multidisciplinary Approach

1st Edition

By Giampiero Bagni
March 12, 2024

This book is the first to use a multidisciplinary approach to study the Knights' Templars of Bologna, Italy. Archaeological, scientific, historical and archival sources are combined to consider the Templars in the context of Bologna’s growing economic and political power during this period. A ...

The Teutonic Order in Italy, 1190-1525 Building Bridges in the Medieval World

The Teutonic Order in Italy, 1190-1525: Building Bridges in the Medieval World

1st Edition

By Kristjan Toomaspoeg
February 01, 2024

Between 1190 and 1525, the Teutonic Order (the third major military religious order after the Temple and the Hospital) maintained extensive possessions in Italy. This volume examines the history of the Order’s Italian branch, arguing that it served as an intermediary between East and West, as well...

The 1522 Siege of Rhodes Causes, Course and Consequences

The 1522 Siege of Rhodes: Causes, Course and Consequences

1st Edition

Edited By Simon Phillips
January 29, 2024

In 1522, the Ottomans attacked the island of Rhodes and, after a six-month siege, the Hospitallers surrendered on terms. The Knights Hospitaller had ruled Rhodes since 1309, and the Ottomans had attempted to capture the island 40 years before in 1480, but were defeated by the Knights. The ...

Knightly Memories Remembering and Reinventing the Military Orders in Britain

Knightly Memories: Remembering and Reinventing the Military Orders in Britain

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Siberry
January 19, 2024

This is the first book-length study of the legacy and memory of the main military orders in Britain, the Templars and Knights of St. John. It provides a survey from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries using hitherto neglected sources and identifies areas for further research and analysis.The ...

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia (Edition and Translation)

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order: A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia (Edition and Translation)

1st Edition

Edited By Rombert Stapel
September 08, 2023

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (‘Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden’) is a late-fifteenth-century Middle Dutch text that strongly influenced early modern historiography in north-eastern Europe. In German scholarship the text is commonly known as the Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik (‘Younger ...

The Templars The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order

The Templars: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a Military Religious Order

1st Edition

Edited By Jochen Burgtorf, Shlomo Lotan, Enric Mallorquí-Ruscalleda
January 09, 2023

As the oldest of the military religious orders and the one with an unexpected and dramatic downfall, the knighthood of the Templars continues to fascinate academics and students as well as the public at large. A collection of fifteen chapters accompanied by a historical introduction, The Templars: ...

Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta

Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta

1st Edition

By George A. Said-Zammit
August 01, 2022

Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta is a study concerned with a wide spectrum of early modern dwellings in Malta, ranging from palazzi and affluent residences to peasant dwellings, troglodyte houses, and hovels. The multifaceted approach adopted in this...

Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order

Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order

1st Edition

By Rombert Stapel
August 01, 2022

Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century is a multidisciplinary study of late medieval authorship and the military orders, framed as a whodunit that uncovers the anonymous author of the ‘Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order’. Through a close analysis of the ...

Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital’s Rhodian Archives, 1314–1428

Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital’s Rhodian Archives, 1314–1428

1st Edition

Edited By Karl Borchardt
May 30, 2022

Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital’s Rhodian Archives, 1314–1428 brings together over 450 texts concerning the Hospitallers during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These texts are crucial sources for understanding the history of the Hospitallers between 1314 and 1428. ...

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400

1st Edition

By Rory MacLellan
May 30, 2022

Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons donated to both military and non-military orders ...

The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey

The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey

1st Edition

Edited By Helen J. Nicholson, Jochen Burgtorf
February 01, 2022

This book pays homage to the work of a scholar who has substantially advanced knowledge and understanding of the medieval military-religious orders. Alan J. Forey has published over seventy meticulously researched articles on every aspect of the military-religious orders, two books on the ...

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