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Knights of St.John in Jerusalem and Cyprus

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  1. Jonathan Riley-Smith
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 1-13

  3. General History of the Order and its Participation in the Politics of Latin Syria

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16
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    2. The Latin Settlement in the East, 1099–1187

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 17-31

    3. ‘From These Small Beginnings…’

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 32-59

    4. ‘The Hospitallers Have Come to Great Power’

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 60-84

    5. The Latin Settlement in the East, 1187–1310

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 85-105

    6. Knighthood of Christ

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 106-144

    7. Governors of Latin Syria

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 145-197

    8. Interlude in Cyprus

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 198-226

  4. The Organisation of the Order of St. John

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-228
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    2. Members of the Order and Conventual Life

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 229-273

    3. The Master, His Convent and the Chapter General

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 274-303

    4. The Conventual Bailiffs

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 304-340

    5. Provincial Government

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 341-371

  5. The Ecclesiastical Privileges of the Order or St. John

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 373-374
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    2. An Exempt Order of the Church

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 375-389

    3. The Hospitallers and the Latin Hierarchies in the East

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 390-420

  6. The Material Assets of the Hospitallers in Syria

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 421-422
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    2. The Hospitallers as Land-Owners

      • Jonathan Riley-Smith
      Pages 423-450
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About this book

Written by a brilliant scholar, this book is the first volume of a major work, which makes full use of the very rich documentary material still surviving and relates it to the evidence of the chronicles. Oriental sources are not disregarded: use is made of Arabic material and the latest archaeological discoveries in the Near East. The author has concentrated upon the Order as an institution in the crusader states and as a powerful international religious corporation. He considers its growth to power, its participation in the polititcs of the Latin settlement in the East, its organisation, its position as an exempt Order of the Church, its properties and its methods of administration as a landlord in feudal states. For the first time, the Order of St John is treated in a way that is neither hostile nor romantically partisan: and the author's conclusions differ from those of other historians. In his description of the Hospitallers' policies, the place they occupied in the government of Latin Syria, their privileges and the way they lived, he shows how it was thay they - individuals as well as the corporate body - played such a significant part in the history of the Christian East in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This book is important to all those interested in the Knights of St John, the international Orders of mediaeval Christendom or the extra-ordinary states established by western Europeans on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

About the author

JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knights of St.John in Jerusalem and Cyprus

  • Authors: Jonathan Riley-Smith

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15241-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

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

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1967

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-02660-1Due: 01 November 1967

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0615-1Published: 31 December 1966

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-15241-4Published: 30 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 553

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Christianity, Catholicism, History of the Middle East

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