Emanuel Buttigieg (PhD Cantab) is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Malta. He read history at the Universities of Malta and Cambridge. Key publication includes Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700 (Continuum, 2011); Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798 (Ashgate, 2013) co-edited with Simon Phillips; and The University of Malta: Legacies & Bearings (Malta University Press, 2020) as co-editor and co-author. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Routledge Military Religious Orders series and Associate Editor of the Hospitaller Sources Project sub-series.

Clara Almagro Vidal (PhD University of Granada) is Senior Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History and Historiographical Sciences at UNED (Madrid). Her research focuses on the landscape of lands owned by military orders and on their lordship over Muslims in medieval Iberia. She has authored a monograph titled Medieval Landscapes in the Campo de Calatrava (ed. La Ergástula, 2016), co-edited Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean (Brepols, 2020) with Jessica Tearney-Pearce and Luke Yarbrough, and co-edited Forms of Unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean (CIDEHUS, 2021) with Filomena Barros.

Chapter 1

Editorial Preface

Emanuel Buttigieg and Clara Almagro Vidal

Chapter 2

Ubicunque orbis terrarum: the military orders across the globe

Helen Nicholson

Chapter 3

Reconsidering the military orders and Scottish royal identity, ca.1150-1300

Gordon Reynolds

Chapter 4

Fortified positions of the Military Orders in the Amanos and Cilicia region: Baghras, Trapesac, Çalan, Amuda and Silifke Castles

Muhittin Çeken

Chapter 5

The 1522 siege of Rhodes and Portugal: Background and impact

Joana Lencart & Paula Pinto

Chapter 6

Of battles and escorts: The Hospitallers in the wider tapestry of the 17th century

Emanuel Buttigieg

Chapter 7

Honour and discord in the Spanish Council of Military Orders: Prosecutors versus secretaries in the quest for institutional pre-eminence, 1593-1691

Hector Linares

Chapter 8

The election of heads of military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries

Alan Forey

Chapter 9

The English Hospitallers in holy war and papal schism, 1378-1417

Anthony Luttrell

Chapter 10

Appointing power: The military orders as lords of
Muslim communities in medieval Iberia

Clara Almagro Vidal

Chapter 11

The Hospitallers and the burgesses of Rhodes in the 14th and 15th centuries

Nicholas Coureas

Chapter 12

The ovens of Augusta: Naval victualling in Sicily in the 17th and 18th centuries

Ray Gatt

Chapter 13

A Templar letter to Countess Sybil of Flanders: Osto of Saint-Omer and the Maiden of Carcassonne

Miriam Rita Tessera

Chapter 14

The Knights Hospitaller in the monastic landscape of medieval Silesia

Maria Starnawska

Chapter 15

Multiple environments for the military orders according to Jacques de Vitry

Jessalynn Bird

Chapter 16

'Universal and Particular': Framing the Order of St John's post-Tridentine devotions in the context of a universal Church

Matthias Ebejer

Chapter 17

From Malta to eternity: The Order of St John and its visual culture of death

Christian Attard

Chapter 18

The Hospitallers and the Templars in Arabic Sources: Muslim attitudes and perceptions

Jesse W. Izzo

Chapter 19

The deteriorating image of the Templars: A paradox

Sophia Menache

Chapter 20

The Hospitallers in a wider world

Victor Mallia-Milanes

Chapter 21

John Taaffe: Poet and historian of the Order of St John

Elizabeth Siberry

Chapter 22

Aslackby Templar preceptory: A 2021 research excavation to establish its location and layout

Christer Carlsson

Chapter 23

Florentine Renaissance influences and construction techniques in the Hospitaller auberges of the langues (Valletta, Malta)

Valentina Burgassi

Chapter 24

Sleeping memories: Preliminary remarks on the langues of the Order of St John and their archives (16th-18th centuries)

Valeria Vanesio