The Countryside of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306-1423: Original Texts and English Summaries

ISBN-13: 9781032093987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 334 str.

Greg O'Malley

Opis

The Countryside of Hospitaller Rhodes 1306-1423 explores the main themes of settlement, population and defence of the island of Rhodes from 1306 through to 1423, approximately halfway through the period of Hospitaller rule. Including a section dedicated to the sources used in this book, it is ideal for academics and postgraduates of the

Spis treści

Figures; Preface; Introduction; Monies, Measures, Dates; Glossary; Countryside; 1. Byzantine Background; 2. Administration and Defence; 3. Settlement, Economy, Society; 4. Religious and Cultural Life; Appendix: Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Description of Rhodes; Documents; Sources; Manuscripts; Publications; Index

O autorze

Anthony Luttrell was educated at Oxford and has held teaching or research posts in many universities. He is currently an honorary research associate at the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway College. His sixty-five years of study have resulted in over 250 publications, many gathered in the six volumes of his collected studies published in Routledge’s Variorum series, the most recent being Studies on the Hospitallers after 1306: Rhodes and the West (2007). His other publications include The Town of Rhodes 1306–1356 (2003); Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages, with Helen J. Nicholson (2006); Sources for Turkish History in the Hospitallers’ Rhodian Archive 1389–1422 (2008), with Elizabeth Zachariadou; and, with Karl Borchardt and Ekhard Schöffler, Documents Concerning Cyprus from the Hospitallers’ Rhodian Archives: 1409–1459 (2011).

Gregory O’Malley is an independent scholar. He was educated in London and Cambridge. He has published The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue, 1460–1565 (2005) and a number of articles on the Hospitallers born in the British Isles on their links with the Mediterranean and on the Hospitallers’ activities during the later Rhodian period.