Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798

...a coherent collection [with] a very useful index, enabling readers to cross reference between papers. A wide range of historical and archaeological source material is used in these essays, which will be of particular interest to scholars of the Hospitallers and the Crusades, but also to those interested in maritime history and internationalization. International Journal of Maritime History '... this book of essays is not only a valuable contribution to the history of the military orders but, due to the diversity and scope of its well-researched articles, provides valuable information and adds important insights to the discussion concerning relationships and interconnections within the Mediterranean.' Speculum 'This collection of twenty-two essays ... is impressive in its breadth and analytical detail. The book will be an important resource for scholars ...' Medieval Review

Emanuel Buttigieg is a Senior Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Malta. Simon Phillips is a Research Fellow in late medieval history at the University of Cyprus

Introduction; I: Ideas and Ideals about Island Existence; 1: The Hospitallers and Concepts of Island Existence; 2: The Island Order State on Rhodes 1; 3: Islands as Strongholds for the Defence of Christendom: The Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem on Limnos (1459); 4: The Maltese Islands and the Religious Culture of the Hospitallers: Isolation and Connectivity c.1540sc.1690s; II: Relocation and Adaptation; 5: Propagating the Hospitallers' Passagium: Crusade Preaching and Liturgy in 13081309 1; 6: Island Ports and Hospitallers, 14211631; 7: Malta and the Order of St John: Life on an Island Home; III: Life on an Island: Interaction and Innovation; 8: Zones and Nodes of Interaction: The Development of the Hospitaller Town of Rhodes; 9: A Fifteenth-Century Innovation: Humanistic Script on Hospitaller Rhodes; 10: The Vision of the Island of Malta and its Role in the Transformation of the Order's Mission as Seen by the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Traveller; 11: The Knights of the Portuguese Order of Christ on the Island of Madeira (16401755): A Socio-historical Approach 1; IV: Regional Political Dynamics and the Military Orders; 12: The Hospitallers of Rhodes and Attempts to Recover the Duchy of Athens by the Counts of Brienne after 1311; 13: Aspects of the Relations Between the Hospitaller Knights of Rhodes and the Republic of Venice: Contacts and Collaboration During the Second VenetianOttoman War (14991502/03); 14: Between Sicily and Jerusalem: The Teutonic Knights in the Mediterranean (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries); V: Fortifications, War and Defence; 15: The Hospitallers of Rhodes and their Alliances Against the Turks, 13061348 1; 16: The Knights Templar in the Defence of the Lazio Coast: The Quasi-Islands of Santa Maria della Sorresca on Lake Paola and the Tower of San Felice Circeo (11731259); 17: The Development of Gunpowder Defences at the Knights Hospitallers' Fortifications on the Dodecanese Islands (13071522) 1; VI: Economic Aspects of an Island Existence; 18: Hospitaller Small Change: An Archaeological Perspective; 19: Hospitaller Estates and Agricultural Production on Fourteenth- and FifteenthCentury Cyprus; 20: Some Aspects of the Use and Exploitation of Mills by the Order of St John in Rhodes and Cyprus 1; 21: Society and the Economy on the Hospitaller Island of Malta: An Overview; 22: The Order of St John and its Caribbean Islands, 16531665: A Cartographic Record