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The Knights Hospitaller

Author: Helen J Nicholson
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her account is  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Nicholson, Helen J., 1960-
Knights Hospitaller.
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2001
(OCoLC)606738034
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Helen J Nicholson
ISBN: 0851158455 9780851158457 1843830388 9781843830382
OCLC Number: 46937728
Description: xii, 180 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: List of illustrations --
Preface --
List of Masters --
The origin of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem --
Holy war in the Latin East and on the European frontiers, 1130-1291 --
The Hospitallers on Rhodes, 1306-1522 --
The Hospitallers' organization and religious life --
Relations with the rest of Christendom: the Hospitallers' political and economic activities in Europe --
The Order of Malta, 1530-1798 --
The Order of St. John from 1798 to the present day --
Further reading --Index.
Responsibility: Helen Nicholson.

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Can be recommended not only to scholars but also to the general public. All those interested in the history of the crusades must be grateful to have so succinct, so reliable and so readable a summary. Read more...

 
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