The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades

Helen J. Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, UK. She has published extensively on the military orders, crusades, and various related subjects, including an edition of the Templar trial proceedings in Britain and Ireland. She is currently studying the inventory and estate accounts from the Templars’ estates in England and Wales during the years 1308–1313 and is also writing a history of Queen Sybil of Jerusalem (1186–1190). Jochen Burgtorf is Professor of Medieval World History at California State University, Fullerton, US. His work encompasses the crusades, military orders, papacy, refugees, law, the Vikings, and world history. His publications include The Central Convent of Hospitallers and Templars (2008), as well as numerous articles in academic collections and journals.

Introduction

PART I The Iberian Peninsula, archives, and documents

1 The Iberian military-religious orders in the earliest papal registers of supplications, 1342–1362

2 Pelayo Pérez Correa and the international ambitions of the Order of Santiago

3 The identity of Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragon and economics (XII–XIII centuries)

4 Hospitallers, Templars, and the papacy in the twelfth century: the issue of historical agency

PART II The Eastern Mediterranean

5 Descriptions of fighting, captivity, and ransom in the writings of Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem, in the mid-thirteenth century

6 Continuing the Continuation: Eracles 1248–1277

7 Some observations on Hospitaller agricultural activities in the Latin East prior to the fall of Acre in 1291

8 Sergeants in the Rule of the Templars

9 Shared worship at Filerimos on Hospitaller Rhodes: 1306–1421

PART III The trial of the Templars and its after-history

10 The beard and the habit in the Templars’ trial: membership, rupture, resistance

11 The Templar Order in public and cultural debate in France during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

PART IV Beyond Forey’s foundations: the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries

12 Cooking the books: the report of Philip de Thame and financial crisis in fourteenth-century Britain

13 Military order castles in the Holy Land and Prussia: a case for cultural history

14 A crusade against the Poles? Johannes Falkenberg’s ‘Satira’ (1412)

15 Die welt ist kranck. The Teutonic Order and the Prussian Union at the court of Frederick III (1452/53)

16 What the Hospitaller said to the bishop