The origins of the hospital of St John in Jerusalem; Holy War in the Latin East and on the European frontiers, 1130-1291; the Hosptallers on Rhodes, 1306-1522; the Hospitallers' organisation 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.
Prof. Helen J. Nicholson teaches at the University of Cardiff and is a leading international researcher on the history of the Knights Templar. She has written several books on the Templars, including Knight Templar (2004) and A Brief History of the Knights Templar (2010), and has published a new edition and translation of the records of the Templars' trial in Britain and Ireland, The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (2011). She is currently studying the early fourteenth-century records of the Templars' estates in England and Wales.
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.
*CRUSADES*
Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval
military orders, succeeds in setting out [the] main features in an
authoritative and accessible manner. She has a flair for clear and
uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and
quotation. And her account is comprehensive... An attractive
volume.
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