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The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Prologue

    1. Prologue

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 1-11

  3. Inception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Origins, c.1070–1160

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 15-26

    3. Militarization, 1126–1182

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 27-37

    4. Reaching Maturity, 1177–1206

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 38-51

    5. The Order and the Politics of the Latin East, 1201–1244

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 52-65

  4. The Mission

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Nursing the Sick and Burying the Dead

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 69-80

    3. Defending Christians

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 81-93

  5. The Order

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Members

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 97-109

    3. Conventual Life

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 110-125

    4. The Master, His Convent and the Chapter General

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 126-139

    5. The Conventual Bailiffs and Their Departments

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 140-151

  6. Assets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. An Exempt Order of the Church

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 155-170

    3. The Estate in the Levant

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 171-184

    4. Provincial Government and the Estate in Europe

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 185-201

  7. The End of the Beginning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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About this book

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.

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About the author

JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH'S first university post was in the Department of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 1972 he returned to the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge before being appointed Professor of History at Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1978. From 1994 to 2005 he was Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Cambridge. He is a Knight of Justice of The Most Venerable Order of St John and a Knight Grand Cross of Grace and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He is the sole author of eleven books, including The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus, c.1050-1310 (1967), The Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174-1277 (1973), What Were the Crusades? (1977, 4th edition 2009), The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (1986), The Crusades: A History (1987, 2nd edition 2005), The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 (1997), The Crusades, Christianity and Islam (2008) and Templars and Hospitallers as Professed Religious in the Holy Land (2010).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309

  • Authors: Jonathan Riley-Smith

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264756

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29083-9Published: 31 May 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33162-8Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26475-6Published: 31 May 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 334

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, European History, History of Religion

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