| CODE | HST5052 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Order of the Hospital - the Rhodian Phase c. 1310 - 1522 | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | It is the aim of the present study-unit to identify and evaluate the Hospitaller institution in its fourteenth- and fifteenth-century state of development. To realize this objective, lectures and seminars will be conducted round the following themes: • The development of the Order’s network of priories and commanderies throughout Europe. It was from these European estates that wealth (in the form of responsiones) and manpower were ‘collected and transferred … to the Mediterranean frontline’. Stepping into Templar landed wealth. • Consolidation of the Order’s internal government and administration. • Membership of the Order (priests, knights, sergeants, nuns); proofs of nobility. • The creation of the first Hospitaller State – the Pragmaticae Rhodiae, the Castellania, and the general government of the island of Rhodes. Banking and corsairing on Rhodes. Church-State relations. • Relations with the papacy in the 14th and 15th centuries. Hospitaller Rhodes and International Relations. • The Hospitallers as Patrons of Art on Rhodes. • The political, social, economic, and cultural transformation of Hospitaller Rhodes – that is, from c.1310 to 1522. Intended Learning Outcomes: By the end of the study-unit, candidates will be able to deepen their understanding of the new personality of the Order, and to demonstrate (a) a knowledge of selected bodies of evidence relevant to the study of the issues brought up for discussion during the seminars, and of the problems of their interpretation; and (b) an advanced ability to deal with the specificity of Hospitaller sources, both written and unwritten, and to address broad methodological issues. Reading List: Fundamental Works: A. Gabriel, La Cité de Rhodes 1310-1522, 2 vols. (Paris 1921-23). J. Delaville le Roulx, Les Hospitaliers à Rhodes jusqu’ à la mort de Philibert de Naillac: 1310-1421 (Paris 1913). Anthony T. Luttrell, The Hospitallers in Cyprus, Rhodes, Greece and the West: 1291-1440 (London 1978). Anthony T. Luttrell, Latin Greece, the Hospitallers and the Crusade: 1291-1440 (London 1982). Giacomo Bosio, Dell’Istoria della S. Religione et Ill.ma Militia di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano: vol. ii (2nd edn: Rome 1630). H. Nicholson, Knights Hospitaller (2001) K.M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, vol.ii (1975) K.M. Setton (ed.), History of the Crusades, vol.iii. A. Forey, The Military Orders (1992) Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (1999). A. Demurger, Chevaliers du Christ … (1992) Available in translation. J. Sarnowsky, Macht und Herrschaft … (2001). N. Vatin, L’Ordre de Saint-Jean … 1480-1522 (1994). Anthony. T. Luttrell, Town of Rhodes (2003). Anthony. T. Luttrell, Hospitallers of Rhodes … (1992). Anthony. T. Luttrell, Hospitaller State … (1999). Anthony. T. Luttrell, Studies on the Hospitallers … (2007) Anthony. T. Luttrell, Juan Fernandez de Heredia … (www.xoan.net/morea). Anthony. T. Luttrell and E. Zachariadou, Sources … (forthcoming). Stephen Spiteri, Fortresses of the Knights (2001). G. O’Malley, The Knights Hospitaller … (2005). Lorenzo Schiavone, Pietrino del Ponte … (1995). P. Bonneaud, Prieure de Catalogne … (2004). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Emanuel Buttigieg |
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