A book entitled 'The Hospitaller Knights of Saint Lazarus' by Prof. Charles Savona-Ventura has been recently published. This work explores the history of this lesser known hospitaller Order from its origins as a leprosarum sited outside the walls of Jerusalem, established before the First Crusade, through its development as a Monastic Military Crusader Order emulating the Order of the Temple and the Hospitaller Order of Saint John. Further chapters review the history of the Order through the changing circumstances from the fourteenth century right up to the modern times.
Using contemporary documentation, the work will serve as a useful aid to understanding the history of the various hospitaller Orders that developed in the twelfth century in the Outremer and in the Western Christian world.