The Knights Hospitaller

Helen J. Nicholson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2001
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-0-85115-845-7 (ISBN)

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A vivid, concise history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, founded to care for sick and poor pilgrims, defenders of Christendom for almost seven hundred years.

This short study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as well as the interested general reader. Beginning with a consideration of the origins of the Order as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the eleventh century, it traces the Hospitaller's development into a military order during the first part of the twelfth century, and its military activities on the frontiers of Christendom in the eastern Mediterranean, Spain and eastern Europe during the middle ages and into early modern period: its role in crusades and in wars against non-Christians on land and at sea, as well as its role in building and maintaining fortresses. It also considers the Order's activities away from the frontiers of Christendom: its economic activities and its relations with patrons and rulers throughout Europe, as well as its hospitaller work and its religious life. The focus of the study is on the medieval period down to the loss of Rhodes in 1522, but the final chapters of the book consider the Order'shistory on Malta from the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century, and from the loss of Malta in 1798 to the present day.
HELEN NICHOLSON is Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.

1.c. List of Illustrations 3 Preface 3 List of Masters 7 1.c. 1. The Origins of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem 14 2. Holy War in the Latin East and on the European Frontiers, 1130-1291 41 1.c. 1.c. 3. The Hospitallers on Rhodes, 1306-1522 73 4. The Hospitallers' organisation and religious life 111 5. Relations with the rest of Christendom: the Hospitallers' political and economic activities in Europe 158 6. The Order of Malta, 1530-1798 184 7. The Order of St John from 1798 to the present day 217 1.c. Further Reading 232 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.12.2001
Zusatzinfo	9 colour. 12 b/w. 5 line.
Verlagsort	Woodbridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-85115-845-5 / 0851158455
ISBN-13	978-0-85115-845-7 / 9780851158457
Zustand	Neuware