The Knights of Malta

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Yale University Press, 01.01.1996 - 305 Seiten
This is a complete history of the Order of St John or Knights of Malta. Founded as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the Order has in succeeding centuries played an important military, religious and political role in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean.
 

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The Kingdom of Jerusalem
3
Le Crac
16
The Sovereign Order
25
The Three Sieges
51
Malta
73
The Navy of the Religion
85
Introduction ΙΟΙ
101
A NOTE ON THE MAPS
112
The Tongue of England
176
The Tongue of Germany
192
Our Lords the Sick
209
The Closed Crown
221
Ruit Alto a Culmine Troia
234
Resurgence
247
The Modern Order
268
Diplomatic Representation
285

The Tongues of Aragon
139
The Tongue of Italy
160

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