Publication

2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

Language

English

Word Count

83,500 words, Guess

Page Count

334 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780230290839
  • ISBN-100230290833
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012011175
  • OCLC Control Number768167250
  • Better World Books9780230290839
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC945.8/502
  • LCCCR4731.M43 R55 2012
  • LCCD111-D203D900-D2027B

Description

"As one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities and internal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles at both a hospitaller and a military order, and its performance as an institution that was at the same time a religious order and a great international corporation." --Back cover.

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