The Military Orders Volume VII Piety, Pugnacity and Property

The Military Orders essay collections arising from the quadrennial conferences held at Clerkenwell in London have come to represent an international point of reference for scholars. This present volume brings together twenty-nine papers given at the seventh iteration of this event. The studies offered here cover regions as disparate as Prussia, Iberia and the Eastern Mediterranean and chronologically span topics from the Twelfth to the Twentieth century. They draw attention to little used textual and non-textual sources, advance challenging new methodologies, and help to place these military-religious institutions in a broader context.

List of FiguresPrefaceList of abbreviationsList of contributorsIntroductionProperty: landholdings (Malta)The properties and landed possessions of the Knights of St. John in Malta: an analysis of Cabrei 290 and 307 conserved at the National Library of MaltaGeorge A. Said-ZammitRepresenting Space: Surveying and Drawing Techniques in the Maltese Cabrei of the Order of St. John (XVII-XVIII Century)Daniel Borg & Mevrick Spiteri The Economization of Built Property: Urban Houses of the Manoel Foundation in Eighteenth Century VallettaMevrick SpiteriProperty: landholdings elsewhereThe remains of Templar settlements in southern Italy: some case studiesClaudia Cundari Collecting Property for the Founding of a Teutonic House in Utrecht (1218-1235)Jerem van DuijlPower, Status and Property in the Early Years of the Teutonic Order in AcreShlomo LotanPiety and Property in Late Medieval and Early Modern Rhodes: The case of TriandaSimon PhillipsProperty and Piety: economic activity and material culture A multidisciplinary approach to the production of wine on Templar estates: the Bologna commandery Giampiero BagniThe commanderies of the Military Order of Santiago around Campo de Ourique (Portugal) in the Middle Ages: properties, resources and administrationAna Cláudia SilveiraTreasured Possessions: Aspects of Hospitaller Material Culture, c.1680-c.1720Emanuel Buttigieg & Adriana Mintoff The art collections of Hospitaller knights in MaltaTheresa VellaProperty and Pugnacity: serfs, slaves and slave-trading‘Our Moors’: Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of CastileClara Almagro Vidal The Hospitallers and their Manumissions of Rhodian and Cypriot Serfs (1409-1459)Nicholas CoureasThe Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530–1798William ZammitProperty, Piety and Pugnacity: internal politics and vocations Networking at the papal curia as a survival strategy: the Teutonic Order and the crisis of the military orders in the early fourteenth centuryBarbara Bombi Hospitaller Chapters in the Medieval Priory of AlamaniaKarl BorchardtAbandoning Piety and Pugnacity? New Military Orders in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.Rory MacLellanThe Knights Hospitallers of St John in Polish Lands and Rhodes in the late Middle Ages: piety, pugnacity, property, and power on peripheries. Maria Starnawska and translated by Andrzej DubinaProperty, Piracy, and Pugnacity: Reflections on Venice’s Attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in Early Modern TimesVictor Mallia-MilanesVariations on a theme: Harry Pirie-Gordon and the Order of Sanctissima SophiaElizabeth Siberry Piety: charity and spiritualityThe charity of the Order of Santiago at the end of the Middle Ages: The case of the hospital of Alarcón Jaime García Carpintero López de Mota The Teutonic Knights, the bishop of Warmia and the relics of the True Cross in Prussia in the second half of the Fourteenth centuryKarol Polejowski and Sobieslaw Szybkowski The patron saints of military orders’ churches in Castile and Portugal, 1462-1539Paula Pinto Costa, Raquel Torres Jiménez, Joana Lencart Pugnacity and Property on the frontierThe Military Orders and the Principality of Antioch: A Help or a Hindrance?Andrew D. BuckA Document about the Beginning of the Military Orders’ Involvement in the ReconquistaAlan ForeyFrom Pugnacity to peace-mongers: The Military Orders protecting property and people in the Latin EastBetty Binysh Hospitaller Pugnacity: 1306-1421Anthony Luttrell A Florentine Cleric on Rhodes: Bonsignore Bonsignori’s unpublished account of his 1498 visitMichael HeslopThe Long Siege of Candia (1648-69): the Knights of St John, a Venetian Protectorate, the Ottoman Empire and a Scottish regiment.Matthew Glozier Index

Nicholas Morton is a lecturer in history at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research interests include the Crusades, the military orders, Christian-Islamic relations during the medieval period and the Seljuk Turks. He has published extensively on these themes, and his recent monographs include The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East and Encountering Islam on the First Crusade. He is an editor for two Routledge book series: Rulers of the Latin East and The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources and Memory.