The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309 / by J. Riley-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--History.

Religion--History.

Religion.

History of Medieval Europe.

European History.

History of Religion.

Local Subjects:

History of Medieval Europe.

European History.

History of Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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. 1. Inception

pt. 2. The mission

pt. 3. The order

pt. 4. Assets

pt. 5. The end of the beginning.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613722379

9781280881060

1280881062

9781137264756

1137264756

OCLC:

798532335