Hospitallers and Others

This book features a collection of essays that focus on the Hospitallers’ relations with others through military, social, and political channels within the broader Euro‑Mediterranean region. Centered on Hospitaller settlement and activities in Rhodes and their European priories, this study highlights the various encounters made possible by the far‑reaching and international character of the Order’s activities. In addition to examining Hospitaller encounters and relationships with those outside the Order, this collection also includes essays that explore the internal workings of Hospitaller priories and the Central Convent of the Order during periods of change and expansion, revealing a propensity for continual adaptation and reinvention. Hospitallers and Others: Military and Social Encounters will appeal to scholars and students alike, providing a deeper understanding of the social, military, spiritual, and institutional transformation of the Hospitallers during the medieval period.

Christie Majoros is an independent scholar who completed a doctorate at Cardiff University. Her research centers on the properties of the Hospitallers in Britain and Ireland and the brethren who inhabited them. Her publications include “Cooking the Books: The Report of Philip de Thame and Financial Crisis in Fourteenth Century Britain” in The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey (2020), and “Through the Local Lens: Re‑Examining the Function of the Hospitallers in England,” in The Military Orders: Culture and Conflict. Vol. 6.2 (2016).

Maria Bonet Donato is professor of Medieval History at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Her research focuses on military orders, particularly the Hospitallers. She also has studied social and economic relationships in medieval Catalonia. Recently, she has published “The Identity of the Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragon and Economics (XII–XIII Centuries)” in The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey (2020) and “Organizing Violence. Peace and War in Twelfth Century Catalonia” in Inter‑Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi‑Ethnic Societies, II (2022). Along with Julia Pavón Benito, she co‑authored “Religiosidad de los laicos en torno a la orden del Hospital en la Corona de Aragón” in Órdenes militares y religiosidad (c. 1150–1550). Ideología, memoria y cultura material (2023).

Julia Pavón Benito is professor of Medieval History and has served as the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Navarra since 2020. Her research focuses on the Kingdom of Navarra during the High Middle Ages, medieval death, and the Orders of the Hospital and Temple. She has edited several works, including Death and the Medieval Man (2007), Medieval Queens of Navarra (2014), The Order of Saint John in Jerusalem: Medieval Panoramas and Peninsular Trajectories (2013) with Maria Bonet Donato, and Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century III: Political Theory and Practice (2015).