The Knights of Malta: Holy Warriors of the Crusades
Rory MacLellan,
Steve Tibble
The Knights of Malta tells the story of the Knights Hospitaller, the most successful and important of the medieval military-religious orders - how a small hospital in Jerusalem became a lynchpin in the crusades, ruling lands across Europe and defying the mighty Ottoman Empire, all the while providing treatment and hospitality for the constant flow of pilgrims to the Holy Land.
Written by two experts on the crusades and the military orders, and drawing on many fascinating episodes unknown to a popular audience, the book traces the Hospitallers from their origins in Jerusalem before the First Crusade through to the modern day, including their part in the crusades, their wars with the Turks, their American colonies, and even their brief time as an air force in the Cold War. It shows the important but overlooked role that this small band of knights had across Europe and the Near East in some of history’s best-known events, from the crusades to the Hundred Years War, the Reformation and the Napoleonic Wars.
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- Author: Rory MacLellan, , Steve Tibble
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- UK: Yale University Press
Rory MacLellan,
Rory MacLellan grew up in Wiltshire before studying ancient and medieval history at the University of Winchester, which was soon followed by an MLitt in medieval history at the University of St Andrews. He remained in St Andrews for a PhD in the same subject with a thesis on the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, graduating in 2019.
Rory now works for Historic Royal Palaces as a postdoctoral researcher based at the Tower of London, researching the site’s medieval Jewish history for a project supported by the Rothschild Trust. He specialises in medieval religion and t...
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Steve Tibble
Dr Steve Tibble is a graduate of Cambridge and London Universities, and is a research associate at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is one of the foremost academics currently working in the field of the crusades.
His latest book, 'Templars - The Knights Who Made Britain' (2023) was published by Yale University Press to wide acclaim. Other recent publications have been similarly highly praised and include 'The Crusader Armies' (Yale, 2018) and 'The Crusader Strategy' (Yale, 2020, short-listed for the Duke of Wellington's Military History Prize). He is...
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