Hospitallers : the history of the Order of St. John / Jonathan Riley-Smith
1999, First Edition. London ; Rio Grande [Ohio] : Hambledon Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #400970
ISBN: 1852851961
Physical description; vii, 152 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; 1. The Crusades. Pilgrimages to Jerusalem. The First Crusade. The Latin East -- 2. Knights Hospitaller. The Hospital in Jerusalem. The Templars and Militarization. A Hospitaller Estate. The Loss of Jerusalem. Acre. The Defence of the Holy Land. Krak des Chevaliers. Crisis -- 3. An Order of the Church. Brothers and Sisters. The Master and Central Government. The Langues and the Auberges. Provincial Government. The Priory of England -- 4. Rhodes and Malta. Rhodes and the Sea. Defence of the East. The Fall of Rhodes. Malta and the Great Siege. Sovereignty. The Loss of Malta -- 5. Modern Times. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta. The Johanniterorden. The British Order of St. John. Wartime. The Most Venerable Order of St. John Today. The Future. Subjects; Knights of Malta History. Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. St. John Ambulance (England) History. Knights of St. John. Medieval. Hospital Auxiliaries history. Christianity history.
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