| CODE | HST5051 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Military Orders and the Holy Land - to c. 1300 | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The Military Orders [Sessions 1 – 12] These twelve 2-hourly sessions should cover: the nature of the settlement in the East and the threats it faced; general historiography; the development of the concept of penitential warfare in the crusades; the origins of the Temple, the Hospital, the Teutonic Order and the minor military orders (including St Lazarus, Montjoie and St Thomas); the development of the ethos of the military orders, with particular reference to the Temple; the military role of the orders in the Levant; the political role of the orders in the Levant; the fall of the Temple. The Hospital of St John [Sessions 13 – 24] 13. The militarization of the Hospital and the crisis of 1170 14. The Hospitaller ethos of care 15. The Hospital’s landed estate in the East and its dependence on the West 16. The management of resources: commanderies and castellanies in the Levant 17. The use of space in Hospitaller architecture 18. The relations of an exempt order with the papacy and with the church and secular powers in the East 19. Personnel: knights, priests, sergeants, sisters, servants, mercenaries 20. Conventual life (including relations with the indigenous) 21. Central government (1) – the master, the great officers and the central convent 22. Central government (2) – chapters general and movements for reform 23. Problems for historians: some difficult mss in the National Library 24. What is a military order? Intended Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the study-unit, candidates will have a clear understanding of the major themes pertaining to the early history of the Military Orders, particularly the Order of the Hospital, taking account of traditional and more recent theoretical approaches. They will be able (a) to distinguish between the differences in character and functions of the various Military Orders and the way these evolved over the centuries; (b) to demonstrate a more detailed understanding of recent developments in the study of these institutions; (c) to analyze and criticize these developments; (d) to exhibit a critical understanding of the primary evidence through a series of interlocking themes; and (e) to employ different methodologies in the understanding and interpreting of archival documentation for the early history of the Order. Basic and Essential Bibliography: Barber, Malcolm, The New Knighthood. A History of the Order of the Temple (Cambridge, 1994) Barber, Malcolm, The Trial of the Templars (2nd edn: Cambridge, 2007) Morton, Nicholas, The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land (Woodbridge, 2009) Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus 1050-1310 (London, 1967) Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford, 1995) Crusades, The Military Orders, vols 1-4 (ed. Malcolm Barber, Helen Nicholson, Judi Upton-Ward and Victor Mallia-Milanes) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Charles Dalli |
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