Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798

Emanuel Buttigieg is a Senior Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Malta. Simon Phillips is a Research Fellow in late medieval history at the University of Cyprus

Introduction; I: Ideas and Ideals about Island Existence; 1: The Hospitallers and Concepts of Island Existence; 2: The Island Order State on Rhodes 1; 3: Islands as Strongholds for the Defence of Christendom: The Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem on Limnos (1459); 4: The Maltese Islands and the Religious Culture of the Hospitallers: Isolation and Connectivity c.1540s–c.1690s; II: Relocation and Adaptation; 5: Propagating the Hospitallers' Passagium: Crusade Preaching and Liturgy in 1308–1309 1; 6: Island Ports and Hospitallers, 1421–1631; 7: Malta and the Order of St John: Life on an Island Home; III: Life on an Island: Interaction and Innovation; 8: Zones and Nodes of Interaction: The Development of the Hospitaller Town of Rhodes; 9: A Fifteenth-Century Innovation: Humanistic Script on Hospitaller Rhodes; 10: The Vision of the Island of Malta and its Role in the Transformation of the Order's Mission as Seen by the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Traveller; 11: The Knights of the Portuguese Order of Christ on the Island of Madeira (1640–1755): A Socio-historical Approach 1; IV: Regional Political Dynamics and the Military Orders; 12: The Hospitallers of Rhodes and Attempts to Recover the Duchy of Athens by the Counts of Brienne after 1311; 13: Aspects of the Relations Between the Hospitaller Knights of Rhodes and the Republic of Venice: Contacts and Collaboration During the Second Venetian–Ottoman War (1499–1502/03); 14: Between Sicily and Jerusalem: The Teutonic Knights in the Mediterranean (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries); V: Fortifications, War and Defence; 15: The Hospitallers of Rhodes and their Alliances Against the Turks, 1306–1348 1; 16: The Knights Templar in the Defence of the Lazio Coast: The Quasi-Islands of Santa Maria della Sorresca on Lake Paola and the Tower of San Felice Circeo (1173–1259); 17: The Development of Gunpowder Defences at the Knights Hospitallers' Fortifications on the Dodecanese Islands (1307–1522) 1; VI: Economic Aspects of an Island Existence; 18: Hospitaller Small Change: An Archaeological Perspective; 19: Hospitaller Estates and Agricultural Production on Fourteenth- and FifteenthCentury Cyprus; 20: Some Aspects of the Use and Exploitation of Mills by the Order of St John in Rhodes and Cyprus 1; 21: Society and the Economy on the Hospitaller Island of Malta: An Overview; 22: The Order of St John and its Caribbean Islands, 1653–1665: A Cartographic Record