THE CRUSADES AND THE MILITARY ORDERS
EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF MEDIEVAL LATIN CHRISTIANITY

Edited by Zsolt Hunyadi and József Laszlovszky


Joint publication by
Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest)
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE)

The works of thirty-four contributors from thirteen countries provide a broad range of perspectives on several aspects of the history of the Crusades and the Military Orders. The editors of the volume set as their main objective the bringing together of fellow scholars from different countries and enabling them to exchange results of their research as well as that of their respective countries (East and West). Contributors delineate the principal trends in the historiography of the field, concentrating on their individual areas of expertise. They also present results of their particular research, with a special emphasis on source material related to the history of their region. An ample bibliography (around 1700 entries) is included to facilitate further studies.

34 studies (30 in English, 2 in German, 1 in French, and 1 in Czech)
Includes 34 b&w illustrations
235×165 mmxxiii+606 pagesPaperback
ISSN 1587-6470 CEU MedievaliaISBN 963 9241 42 3
c. USD 40/EUR 45 (discount price for SSCLE members c. USD 25/EUR 28)


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Contents

Crusades and Military Orders: State of Research
József Laszlovszky (Budapest, Hungary)

The Crusades and the Latin East

Some Reflections on the Impact of the Papacy on the Crusader States and the Military Orders in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Rudolf Hiestand (Düsseldorf, Germany)

The Isma'ilis and the Crusaders: History and Myth
Farhad Daftary (London, United Kingdom)

Crusade and Nationalism: Pierre Dubois, the Holy Land, and French Hegemony
Marianne Sághy (Budapest, Hungary)

A Crusader of the Later Middle Ages: King Peter I of Cyprus
Svetlana Bliznyuk (Moscow, Russia)

The Military Orders and the Latin East

Al-Malik al-Mujahid, Ruler of Homs, and the Hospitallers (The Evidence in the Chronicle of Ibn Wasil)
Balázs Major (Budapest, Hungary)

Monetary Questions Arising out of the Role of the Templars as Guardians of the Northern Marches of the Principality of Antioch
Michael Metcalf (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Convergences of Oriental Christian, Muslim and Frankish Worshippers: the Case of Saydnaya and the Knights Templar
Benjamin Z. Kedar (Jerusalem, Israel)

The Military Orders in Cyprus in the Light of Recent Scholarship
Peter W. Edbury (Cardiff, United Kingdom)

Guillame Caoursin's Descriptio obsidione Rhodiae and the Archives of the Knights of Malta
Theresa M. Vann (Collegeville, USA)

The Crusades in Central and East-Central Europe

The Age of the Crusades in the South-East of the Empire (Between the Alps and the Adriatic)
Miha Kosi (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

The Impact of the Crusades on Medieval Croatia
Borislav Grgin (Zagreb, Croatia)

An Eastern Adriatic Merchant Republic (Dubrovnik): Facing the Temptations of the Crusades
Ivica Prlender (Zagreb, Croatia)

Crusaders in the Central Balkans
Ljubinka Dzidrova (Skopje, Macedonia)

Jak vysvetlit porážku. Ondřej z Řezna a křižové výpravy proti husitům
Norman J. Housley (Leicester, United Kingdom)

Some Remarks on Recent Historiography of the Crusade of Nicopolis (1396)
László Veszprémy (Budapest, Hungary)

The Military Orders in Central and East-Central Europe

The Templars in Central Europe
Karl Borchardt (Würzburg, Germany)

Maisons and Possessions des Templiers en Hongrie
Balázs Stossek (Szeged, Hungary)

The Hospitallers in the Kingdom of Hungary: Houses, Personnel, and a Particular Activity up to c. 1400
Zsolt Hunyadi (Budapest-Szeged, Hungary)

The Hospitallers in Hungary before 1418: Problems and Sources
Anthony Luttrell (Bath, United Kingdom)

John of Palisna, the Hospitaller Prior of Vrana
Neven Budak (Zagreb, Croatia)

The Estates of the Hospitallers in Hungary at the End of the Middle Ages
†Pál Engel (Budapest, Hungary)

Böhmische und mährische Adelige als Förderer und Mitglieder der geistlichen Ritterorden
Libor Jan (Brno, Czech Republic)

Historical Monuments of the Teutonic Order in Transylvania
Zoltán Soós (Budapest, Hungary)

The Premyslid Dynasty and the Beginnings of the Teutonic Order
Martin Wihoda (Brno, Czech Republic)

Military Orders: Structures and Systems

Die Ordines militares. Ein Ordenszötus zwischen Einheit und Vielfalt
Kaspar Elm (Berlin, Germany)

Structures in the Orders of the Hospital and the Temple (Twelfth to Early Fourteenth Century) - Select Aspects
Jochen Burgtorf (Göttingen, Germany)

Changing Forms of Hospitaller Address in English Private Charters of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Michael Gervers (Toronto, Canada)

The Military Orders and their Relations with Women
Helen J. Nicholson (Cardiff, United Kingdom)

The Baltic Crusades and the Military Orders

Military Orders and the Beginning of Crusades in Prussia
Maria Starnawska (Siedlce, Poland)

Prussian Missions and the Invitation of the Teutonic Order into Kulmerland
László Pósán (Debrecen, Hungary)

Remarks on the Architecture of the Teutonic Order's Castles in Prussia
Leszek Kajzer and Piotr A. Nowakowski (Lodz, Poland)

The Teutonic Order in Livonia: Diverging Historiographic Traditions
Juhan Kreem (Tallinn, Estonia)

Scandinavian Nemtsy and Repaganized Russians. The Expansion of the Latin West During the Baltic Crusades and its Confessional Repercussions
John H. Lind (Odense, Denmark)

A Bibliography of the Crusades and the Military Orders (c.1700 entries)