Military Orders Volume VIII

The genesis of this volume lies in the online conference held by Nottingham Trent University in 2022. This was the eighth in the series of military orders conferences organised since 1992. The conference fostered rich exchange and debate, as reflected in the twenty-three chapters in this book.

The Military Orders Volume VIII – organised around five thematic axes: interactions, administration, religion, perceptions, and approaches – offers a broad coverage in terms of geographical variety, chronological spread, and thematic focus, as well as a wide variety of approaches and methodologies. As such, this book shows the dynamism of the study of the military orders – a subject of continued scholarly focus and widespread popular interest – and holds the promise for many more exciting initiatives in the future.

This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the military religious orders and the crusades, as well as all those interested more generally in the medieval and early modern world.

Emanuel Buttigieg (PhD Cantab) is Associate Professor in early modern history at the University of Malta. He read history at the Universities of Malta and Cambridge. Key publication includes Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700 (Continuum, 2011); Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798 (Ashgate, 2013) co-edited with Simon Phillips; and The University of Malta: Legacies & Bearings (Malta University Press, 2020) as co-editor and co-author. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Routledge Military Religious Orders series and Associate Editor of the Hospitaller Sources Project sub-series.

Clara Almagro Vidal (PhD University of Granada) is Senior Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medieval History and Historiographical Sciences at UNED (Madrid). Her research focuses on the landscape of lands owned by military orders and on their lordship over Muslims in medieval Iberia. She has authored a monograph titled Medieval Landscapes in the Campo de Calatrava (ed. La Ergástula, 2016), co-edited Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean (Brepols, 2020) with Jessica Tearney-Pearce and Luke Yarbrough, and co-edited Forms of Unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean (CIDEHUS, 2021) with Filomena Barros.