History and heritage

• Introduction

• Part I
• Historiography: Hospitaller historiography: heritages and heresies

• A survey of research on the history of the military orders in the Middle Ages in Polish historiography

• Historiography and history: medieval studies on the military orders in Spain since 1975

• The Knights Templar between theatre and history: Raynouard's works on the Templars (1805-1813)

• Part II
• Liturgy and Fiction, Heraldry and Piety

• Sad stories of the death of kings: last illnesses and funerary rites of the Grand Masters of the Order of St John from d'Aubusson to the Cottoners

• The liturgical policies of the Hospitallers between the invention of printing and the Council of Trent

• The evidence of early printed breviaries and missals

• Hospitallers, mysticism, and reform in late medieval Strasburg

• Heraldry in medieval Rhodes: Hospitallers and others

• The fictional Hospitaller

• Images and stories of the Knights of Malta in Count Jan Potocki's Manuscript Found in Sargossa

• Part III
• Templars, Teutonic Knights, and other Military Orders: The Templar order in north-western Italy: a general picture (1141-1312)

• The Templar James of Garrigans: illuminator and deserter

• The university of Paris and the trial of the Templars

• A look through the keyhole

• Templars in Italy from the trial testimony

• Teutonic castles in Cilician Armenia. A reappraisal

• The use of indulgences by the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages

• Innocent III and the origins of the Order of Sword Brothers

• The military orders and Papal crusading propaganda

• The Hospitaller and Templar houses of PTrigord: some observations

• The battle of Tannenburg-Grunwald Zalgiris (1410) as reflected in 20th-century monuments

• Part IV
• Hospitallers: The decree of 1262: a glimpse into economic decision-making of the Hospitallers

• The Hospitaller order in Acre and Manueth: the ceramic evidence

• Bioarchaeological analysis of the latrine soil from the 13th-century Hospital of St John in Acre

• The Hospitallers and the `Peasants' Revolt' of 1381, revisited

• The Hospitallers and the Kings of Castile in the 14th and 15th centuries

• The visit of Emperor Manuel II Palaeogogus at the Priory of St John in 1401

• John Kaye, the `dread Turk', and the siege of Rhodes

• The Hospitaller fraternity of St John at SS Johan and Cordula in Cologne

• Hospitaller commanderies in the Kingdom of Hungary (c1150-c1330)

• Frisians and foreigners in the Hospitaller house of Sneek: origin and careers

• Hospitaller baroque culture: the Order of St John's legacy to early modern Malta

• Index