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A detailed study of this famed religious-military order, written by the world's pre-eminent Crusades historian, and focusing on the years between the First Crusade and the Knights' conquest of Malta.


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'I think this is an excellently clear book and results from an original vision of the subject; it will obviously be the new standard work'

- Dr Anthony Luttrell, Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway College

'...impressive and substantial...' - Robert Irwin, Literary Review



Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations Explication and Acknowledgements Prologue PART I: INCEPTION Origins, c.1070-1160 Militarization, 1126-1182 Reaching Maturity, 1177-1206 The Order and the Politics of the Latin East, 1201-1244 PART II: THE MISSION Nursing the Sick and Burying the Dead Defending Christians PART III: THE ORDER Members Conventual Life The Master, his Convent and the Chapter General The Conventual Bailiffs and their Departments PART IV: ASSETS An Exempt Order of the Church The Estate in the Levant Provincial Government and the Estate in Europe PART V: THE END OF THE BEGINNING The Loss of the Mainland, 1244-1291 Interlude on Cyprus, 1291-1309 Epilogue Appendix: Masters of the Hospital Bibliography Index

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      Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
      Published 5/31/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780230290839
      978-0230290839
      ISBN-10 0230290833
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      Christianity Religious communities and monasticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A detailed study of this famed religious-military order, written by the world's pre-eminent Crusades historian, and focusing on the years between the First Crusade and the Knights' conquest of Malta.


      Trade Review

      'I think this is an excellently clear book and results from an original vision of the subject; it will obviously be the new standard work'

      - Dr Anthony Luttrell, Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway College

      '...impressive and substantial...' - Robert Irwin, Literary Review



      Table of Contents
      List of Abbreviations Explication and Acknowledgements Prologue PART I: INCEPTION Origins, c.1070-1160 Militarization, 1126-1182 Reaching Maturity, 1177-1206 The Order and the Politics of the Latin East, 1201-1244 PART II: THE MISSION Nursing the Sick and Burying the Dead Defending Christians PART III: THE ORDER Members Conventual Life The Master, his Convent and the Chapter General The Conventual Bailiffs and their Departments PART IV: ASSETS An Exempt Order of the Church The Estate in the Levant Provincial Government and the Estate in Europe PART V: THE END OF THE BEGINNING The Loss of the Mainland, 1244-1291 Interlude on Cyprus, 1291-1309 Epilogue Appendix: Masters of the Hospital Bibliography Index

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