The Military Orders Volume V: Politics and Power

ISBN-13: 9781409421009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Peter Edbury

Opis

Scholarly interest and popular interest in the military orders show no sign of abating. Their history stretches from the early twelfth century to the present. They were among the richest and most powerful religious corporations in pre-Reformation Europe, and they founded their own states on Rhodes and Malta and also on the Baltic coast. Historians of the Church, of art and architecture, of agriculture and banking, of medicine and warfare and of European expansion can all benefit from investigating the orders and their archives. The conferences on their history that have been organized in London every four years have attracted scholars from all over the world. The present volume records the proceedings of the Fifth Conference in 2009 (held in Cardiff as the London venue was in the process of refurbishment), and, like the earlier volumes in the series, will prove essential for anyone interested in the current state of research into these powerful institutions. The thirty-eight papers published here represent a selection of those delivered at the conference. Three papers deal with the recent archaeological investigations at the Hospitaller castle at al-Marqab (Syria); others examine aspects of the history of the military orders in the Latin East and the Mediterranean lands, in Spain and Portugal, in the British Isles and in northern and eastern Europe. The final two papers address the question of present-day perceptions of the Templars as moulded by the sort of popular literature that most of the other contributors would normally keep at arm's length.

Spis treści

Contents: Editor's preface; Introduction, Jonathan Riley-Smith; The Military-religious orders: a medieval 'school for administrators'? Karl Borchardt. Part 1 The Latin East: Archaeological and fresco research in the castle chapel at al-Marqab: a preliminary report on the results of the first seasons, Balázs Major and Éva Galambos; The two Hospitaller chapter houses at al-Marqab: a study in architectural reconstruction, Gergely Buzás; Meat consumption and animal keeping in the citadel at al-Marqab: a preliminary report, István Kováts; The Order of St Thomas of Canterbury in Acre, Denys Pringle; Templars, Franks, Syrians and the Double Pact of 1244, Ilya Berkovich; Royal and papal interference in the dispatch of supplies to the East by the military orders in the later 13th century, Alan Forey; The Hospitallers and Charles I of Anjou: political and economic relations between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Holy Land, Cristian Guzzo; King James II of Cyprus and the Hospitallers: evidence from the Livre des Remembrances, Nicholas Coureas. Part 2 Hospitaller Rhodes and Malta: Smoke and fire signals at Rhodes: 1449, Anthony Luttrell; Success and failure in the practice of power by Pere Ramon Sacosta, Master of the Hospital (1461-1467), Pierre Bonneaud; Battlefield tourism: a description of the 1480 Siege of Rhodes, Theresa M. Vann; Woven tapestries: manifestations of grandeur, politics and power as well as pictorial sources for Hospitaller history: a re-identification, Robert L. Dauber; Politics and power in Grand Master Verdalle's Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem (1588), Emanuel Buttigieg; Towards the end of the Order of the Hospital: reflections on the views of two Venetian brethren, Antonio Miari and Ottavio Benvenuti, Victor Mallia-Milanes. Part 3 The British Isles: The military orders in Wales and the Welsh March in the Middle Ages, Helen J. Nicholson; The military orders at the court of King John, Paul Webster; Walking a thin line: Hospitaller priors, politics and power in late medieval England, Simon Phillips; Procedure, political influence and preceptorial appointments in the Hospitaller priory of England: the Templecombe disputes of 1463-79, Greg O'Malley. Part 4 Italy: Sta Maria in Carbonara in Viterbo: history and architecture of a Templar preceptory in northern Lazio, Nadia Bagnarini; The Spanish military orders in Italy: initial remarks on patronage and properties (12th-14th centuries), Elena Bellomo; The Hospitallers in southern Italy: families and power, Mariarosaria Salerno; The Teutonic order of Italy: an example of the diplomatic ability of the military orders, Kristjan Toomaspoeg. Part 5 Northern and Eastern Europe: The Counts of Brienne and the military orders in the 13th century, Karol Polejowski; The geography of power: the Hospitallers in the territorial policies of the Bishops of Strasbourg in lower Alsace in the 13th century, Nicolas Buchheit; The priors of the Knights Hospitaller from the Piast dynasty in the province of Bohemia: hereditary princes or ecclesiastical dignitaries?, Maria Starnawska; Royal power and the Hungarian-Slavonian Hospitaller priors before the mid-15th century, Zsolt Hunyadi; Politics, diplomacy and the recruitment of mercenaries before the Battle of Tannenberg-Grunwald-Žalgiris in 1410, Sven Ekdahl; Power to the educated? Priest-brethren and their education using data of the Utrecht Bailiwick of the Teutonic Order (1350-1600), Rombert Stapel; Hidden in the bushes: the Teutonic Order in the Bailwick of Utrecht in the 1780-1806 revolutionary period, Renger E. de Bruin. Part 6 The Iberian Peninsula: Troubles and tensions before the trial: the last years of the Castilian Templar province, Philippe Josserand; The relationship between the Crown and the monastery of Santos during the Middle Ages, Joel Silva Ferreira Mata; The recruitment of the Portuguese military orders: a sociological profile, (1385-1521), António Pestana de Vasconcelos and Manuel Lamas de Mendonça; The Portuguese military ord

O autorze

Peter Edbury is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, UK