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 Figures Preface List of abbreviations List of contributors Introduction Property: 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 Malta George A. Said-Zammit Representing 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 Valletta Mevrick Spiteri Property: landholdings elsewhere The remains of Templar settlements in southern Italy: some case studies Claudia Cundari Collecting Property for the Founding of a Teutonic House in Utrecht (1218-1235) Jerem van Duijl Power, Status and Property in the Early Years of the Teutonic Order in Acre Shlomo Lotan Piety and Property in Late Medieval and Early Modern Rhodes: The case of Trianda Simon Phillips Property and Piety: economic activity and material culture A multidisciplinary approach to the production of wine on Templar estates: the Bologna commandery Giampiero Bagni The commanderies of the Military Order of Santiago around Campo de Ourique (Portugal) in the Middle Ages: properties, resources and administration Ana Cláudia Silveira Treasured Possessions: Aspects of Hospitaller Material Culture, c.1680-c.1720 Emanuel Buttigieg & Adriana Mintoff The art collections of Hospitaller knights in Malta Theresa Vella Property and Pugnacity: serfs, slaves and slave-trading ‘Our Moors’: Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile Clara Almagro Vidal The Hospitallers and their Manumissions of Rhodian and Cypriot Serfs (1409-1459) Nicholas Coureas The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530–1798 William Zammit Property, 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 century Barbara Bombi Hospitaller Chapters in the Medieval Priory of Alamania Karl Borchardt Abandoning Piety and Pugnacity? New Military Orders in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Rory MacLellan The 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 Dubina Property, Piracy, and Pugnacity: Reflections on Venice’s Attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in Early Modern Times Victor Mallia-Milanes Variations on a theme: Harry Pirie-Gordon and the Order of Sanctissima Sophia Elizabeth Siberry Piety: charity and spirituality The 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 century Karol Polejowski and Sobieslaw Szybkowski The patron saints of military orders’ churches in Castile and Portugal, 1462-1539 Paula Pinto Costa, Raquel Torres Jiménez, Joana Lencart Pugnacity and Property on the frontier The Military Orders and the Principality of Antioch: A Help or a Hindrance? Andrew D. Buck A Document about the Beginning of the Military Orders’ Involvement in the Reconquista Alan Forey From Pugnacity to peace-mongers: The Military Orders protecting property and people in the Latin East Betty Binysh Hospitaller Pugnacity: 1306-1421 Anthony Luttrell A Florentine Cleric on Rhodes: Bonsignore Bonsignori’s unpublished account of his 1498 visit Michael Heslop The 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.