Military Orders Volume VIII

Emanuel Buttigieg (PhD Cantab) is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Malta. He read history at the Universities of Malta and Cambridge. Key publication includes Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700 (Continuum, 2011); Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798 (Ashgate, 2013) co-edited with Simon Phillips; and The University of Malta: Legacies & Bearings (Malta University Press, 2020) as co-editor and co-author. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Routledge Military Religious Orders series and Associate Editor of the Hospitaller Sources Project sub-series.Clara Almagro Vidal (PhD University of Granada) is Senior Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History and Historiographical Sciences at UNED (Madrid). Her research focuses on the landscape of lands owned by military orders and on their lordship over Muslims in medieval Iberia. She has authored a monograph titled Medieval Landscapes in the Campo de Calatrava (ed. La Ergástula, 2016), co-edited Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean (Brepols, 2020) with Jessica Tearney-Pearce and Luke Yarbrough, and co-edited Forms of Unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean (CIDEHUS, 2021) with Filomena Barros.

• Chapter 1Editorial PrefaceEmanuel Buttigieg and Clara Almagro Vidal Part 1: InteractionsChapter 2Ubicunque orbis terrarum: the military orders across the globeHelen Nicholson Chapter 3Reconsidering the military orders and Scottish royal identity, ca.1150-1300Gordon ReynoldsChapter 4Fortified positions of the Military Orders in the Amanos and Cilicia region: Baghras, Trapesac, Çalan, Amuda and Silifke CastlesMuhittin ÇekenChapter 5The 1522 siege of Rhodes and Portugal: Background and impactJoana Lencart & Paula Pinto Chapter 6Of battles and escorts: The Hospitallers in the wider tapestry of the 17th centuryEmanuel ButtigiegChapter 7Honour and discord in the Spanish Council of Military Orders: Prosecutors versus secretaries in the quest for institutional pre-eminence, 1593-1691Hector Linares Part 2: AdministrationsChapter 8The election of heads of military orders in the 12th and 13th centuriesAlan ForeyChapter 9The English Hospitallers in holy war and papal schism, 1378-1417Anthony LuttrellChapter 10Appointing power: The military orders as lords of Muslim communities in medieval IberiaClara Almagro VidalChapter 11The Hospitallers and the burgesses of Rhodes in the 14th and 15th centuriesNicholas Coureas Chapter 12The ovens of Augusta: Naval victualling in Sicily in the 17th and 18th centuriesRay GattPart 3: ReligionChapter 13A Templar letter to Countess Sybil of Flanders: Osto of Saint-Omer and the Maiden of CarcassonneMiriam Rita Tessera Chapter 14The Knights Hospitaller in the monastic landscape of medieval SilesiaMaria Starnawska Chapter 15Multiple environments for the military orders according to Jacques de VitryJessalynn Bird Chapter 16‘Universal and Particular’: Framing the Order of St John’s post-Tridentine devotions in the context of a universal ChurchMatthias EbejerChapter 17From Malta to eternity: The Order of St John and its visual culture of deathChristian AttardPart 4: PerceptionsChapter 18The Hospitallers and the Templars in Arabic Sources: Muslim attitudes and perceptionsJesse W. Izzo Chapter 19The deteriorating image of the Templars: A paradoxSophia MenacheChapter 20The Hospitallers in a wider worldVictor Mallia-Milanes Chapter 21John Taaffe: Poet and historian of the Order of St JohnElizabeth SiberryPart 5: ApproachesChapter 22Aslackby Templar preceptory: A 2021 research excavation to establish its location and layoutChrister CarlssonChapter 23Florentine Renaissance influences and construction techniques in the Hospitaller auberges of the langues (Valletta, Malta)Valentina BurgassiChapter 24Sleeping memories: Preliminary remarks on the langues of the Order of St John and their archives (16th-18th centuries)Valeria Vanesio