The military religious orders were initially established in the twelfth century to care for and protect western pilgrims in the Holy Land. They later helped to defend the crusader states, participated in the Iberian Reconquista, and eventually played a significant role in warfare, charity, commerce, colonization, and cross-cultural encounters in Europe, the Mediterranean World, and even the New World. The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory stimulates research on this fascinating phenomenon.
The scope of this series is intentionally broad: book proposals are welcome on any aspect of the orders’ history, both medieval and modern. They may draw from a wide range of disciplines, and may consider any of the orders’ geographical zones of operation. We are happy to consider proposals for monographs, thematically coherent collections of articles, as well as critical editions and translations of primary sources (target length per volume 100,000 to 150,000 words).
If you would like to submit a proposal for this series, please email the General Editors: Jochen Burgtorf (California State University, Fullerton, USA): [email protected] and Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University, UK): [email protected]
Editorial Board: Adrian Boas (University of Haifa, Israel) * Paul Crawford (California University of Pennsylvania, USA) * Daniel Gullo (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, USA) * Philippe Josserand (Université de Nantes, France) * Juhan Kreem (Tallinna Linnarchiiv, Estonia) * Helen Nicholson (Cardiff University, UK) * Jürgen Sarnowsky (Universität Hamburg, Germany) * Kristjan Toomaspoeg (Università del Salento, Italy)
Incorporating The Hospitaller Sources Project. Associate Editor: Emanuel Buttigieg (University of Malta)
In association with The Langue of Italy Project. Scientific Committee: Giampiero Bagni (University of Bologna, Italy) * Federico Bulfone Gransinigh (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) * Valentina Burgassi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France) * Chiara Cecalupo (Pontifico Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy) * Vito Ricci (University of Bari, Italy) * Valeria Vanesio (University of Malta).
By Ray Gatt
May 14, 2024
This book details the origin of the Grand Hospitaller Priory of Messina. It discusses a breadth of themes, such as the historiography, the Hospitaller’s European commandery and Sicilian patrimony, its management and organization in the seventeenth century, its religious practices, and the prioral ...
By Giampiero Bagni
March 12, 2024
This book is the first to use a multidisciplinary approach to study the Knights' Templars of Bologna, Italy. Archaeological, scientific, historical and archival sources are combined to consider the Templars in the context of Bologna’s growing economic and political power during this period. A ...
By Kristjan Toomaspoeg
February 01, 2024
Between 1190 and 1525, the Teutonic Order (the third major military religious order after the Temple and the Hospital) maintained extensive possessions in Italy. This volume examines the history of the Order’s Italian branch, arguing that it served as an intermediary between East and West, as well...
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By Simon Phillips
January 29, 2024
In 1522, the Ottomans attacked the island of Rhodes and, after a six-month siege, the Hospitallers surrendered on terms. The Knights Hospitaller had ruled Rhodes since 1309, and the Ottomans had attempted to capture the island 40 years before in 1480, but were defeated by the Knights. The ...
By Elizabeth Siberry
January 19, 2024
This is the first book-length study of the legacy and memory of the main military orders in Britain, the Templars and Knights of St. John. It provides a survey from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries using hitherto neglected sources and identifies areas for further research and analysis.The ...
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By Rombert Stapel
September 08, 2023
The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (‘Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden’) is a late-fifteenth-century Middle Dutch text that strongly influenced early modern historiography in north-eastern Europe. In German scholarship the text is commonly known as the Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik (‘Younger ...
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By Jochen Burgtorf, Shlomo Lotan, Enric Mallorquí-Ruscalleda
January 09, 2023
As the oldest of the military religious orders and the one with an unexpected and dramatic downfall, the knighthood of the Templars continues to fascinate academics and students as well as the public at large. A collection of fifteen chapters accompanied by a historical introduction, The Templars: ...
By George A. Said-Zammit
August 01, 2022
Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta is a study concerned with a wide spectrum of early modern dwellings in Malta, ranging from palazzi and affluent residences to peasant dwellings, troglodyte houses, and hovels. The multifaceted approach adopted in this...
By Rombert Stapel
August 01, 2022
Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century is a multidisciplinary study of late medieval authorship and the military orders, framed as a whodunit that uncovers the anonymous author of the ‘Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order’. Through a close analysis of the ...
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By Karl Borchardt
May 30, 2022
Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital’s Rhodian Archives, 1314–1428 brings together over 450 texts concerning the Hospitallers during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These texts are crucial sources for understanding the history of the Hospitallers between 1314 and 1428. ...
By Rory MacLellan
May 30, 2022
Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons donated to both military and non-military orders ...
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By Helen J. Nicholson, Jochen Burgtorf
February 01, 2022
This book pays homage to the work of a scholar who has substantially advanced knowledge and understanding of the medieval military-religious orders. Alan J. Forey has published over seventy meticulously researched articles on every aspect of the military-religious orders, two books on the ...