Hospitallers and Others

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. Her 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 Donato 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) and “Organizing Violence. Peace and War in Twelfth Century Catalonia” in Inter‑Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi‑Ethnic Societies, II (2022). Along with Julia Pavón Benito, 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 Benito is professor of Medieval History and has served as the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Navarra since 2020. Her research focuses on the Kingdom of Navarra during the High Middle Ages, medieval death, and the Orders of the Hospital and Temple. She has edited several works, including Death and the Medieval Man (2007), Medieval Queens of Navarra (2014), The Order of Saint John in Jerusalem: Medieval Panoramas and Peninsular Trajectories (2013) with Maria Bonet Donato, and Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century III: Political Theory and Practice (2015).

• Chapter 1Umur of Aydin: Holy War Encounters at Smyrna between Turkish Gazis and the Knights Hospitaller of Rhodes in the mid-14th CenturyChristine Isom-VerhaarenChapter 2The Military Conservatism of the Hospitallers during the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth CenturiesJuho WilskmanChapter 3Hospitaller Lodgings and Auberges on Rhodes after 1309Anthony LuttrellChapter 4Charity, Obedience and Authority in the Late Medieval Hospital: Leonardo Buonafede’s Interventions in the Regula MonacharumGeorge SummersChapter 5The Mediterranean Acquaintances of the Hospitallers of the English Langue, 1400-1540Greg O’MalleyChapter 6Oriental Mediterranean social encounters as a framework for the Portuguese HospitallersPaula Pinto and Joana LencartChapter 7Hospitallers in a multi-ethnic society. North-eastern Spain (12th -14th centuriesMaria 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)Wilhelm Ljungar