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The Knights Hospitaller (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Knights Hospitaller (Paperback, New Ed)
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Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval
military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered
explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her
account is comprehensive. An attractive volume. HISTORY 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.
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