The Military Orders Volume V Politics and Power [Hardcover]

Contents: Editor's preface; Introduction, Jonathan Riley-Smith; The Military-religious orders: a medieval 'school for administrators'? Karl Borchardt. Part 1 The Latin East: Archaeological and fresco research in the castle chapel at al-Marqab: a preliminary report on the results of the first seasons, Bal?zs Major and ?va Galambos; The two Hospitaller chapter houses at al-Marqab: a study in architectural reconstruction, Gergely Buz?s; Meat consumption and animal keeping in the citadel at al-Marqab: a preliminary report, Istv?n Kov?ts; The Order of St Thomas of Canterbury in Acre, Denys Pringle; Templars, Franks, Syrians and the Double Pact of 1244, Ilya Berkovich; Royal and papal interference in the dispatch of supplies to the East by the military orders in the later 13th century, Alan Forey; The Hospitallers and Charles I of Anjou: political and economic relations between the Kingdom of Sicily and the Holy Land, Cristian Guzzo; King James II of Cyprus and the Hospitallers: evidence from the Livre des Remembrances, Nicholas Coureas. Part 2 Hospitaller Rhodes and Malta: Smoke and fire signals at Rhodes: 1449, Anthony Luttrell; Success and failure in the practice of power by Pere Ramon Sacosta, Master of the Hospital (1461-1467), Pierre Bonneaud; Battlefield tourism: a description of the 1480 Siege of Rhodes, Theresa M. Vann; Woven tapestries: manifestations of grandeur, politics and power as well as pictorial sources for Hospitaller history: a re-identification, Robert L. Dauber; Politics and power in Grand Master Verdalle's Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem (1588), Emanuel Buttigieg; Towards the end of the Order of the Hospital: reflections on the views of two Venetian brethren, Antonio Miari and Ottavio Benvenuti, Victor Mallia-Milanes. Part 3 The British Isles: The military orders in Wales and the Welsh March in the Middle Ages, Helen J. Nicholson; The military orders at the court of King John, Paul Webster; Walking a thin line: Hospitaller priors, politics and power ilC(