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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities and internal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles as both a hospitaller and a military order and its performance as an institution that was at the same time a religious order and a great international corporation. |
| Contents |
pt. I: Inception -- Origins, c.1070-1160 -- Militarization, 1126-1182 -- Reaching Maturity, 1177-1206 -- Order and the Politics of the Latin East, 1201-1244 -- pt. II: Mission -- Nursing the Sick and Burying the Dead -- Defending Christians -- pt. III: Order -- Members -- Conventual Life -- Master, His Convent and the Chapter General -- Conventual Bailiffs and Their Departments -- pt. IV: Assets -- An Exempt Order of the Church -- Estate in the Levant -- Provincial Government and the Estate in Europe -- pt. V: End of the Beginning -- Loss of the Mainland, 1244-1291 -- Interlude on Cyprus, 1291-1309 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Masters of the Hospital. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knights of Malta -- History -- To 1500.
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Knights of Malta. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
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Mediterranean Region. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy. |
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Middle Eastern history -- c 1000 CE to c 1500 -- Middle East. |
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Medieval history -- c 1000 CE to c 1500 -- Middle East. |
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Christian communities & monasticism -- c 1000 CE to c 1500 -- Middle East. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher, 1938- Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780230290839 (DLC) 2012011175 (OCoLC)768167250 |
| ISBN |
9781137264756 (electronic book) |
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1137264756 (electronic book) |
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9780230290839 |
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0230290833 |
| Standard No. |
9786613722379 |
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