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Explication and Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations xi
Maps xv
Prologue 1
An Authentic Religious Order 1
Background 4
Part I Inception
1 Origins, c.1070-1160 15
A Voice from the Past 15
Foundation 16
Gerard 18
Independence 20
The Care of Pilgrims 22
Who Succeeded Gerard? 23
Raymond of Puy 23
The Rule 24
2 Militarization, 1126-1182 27
Milites ad terminum 27
The First Stage 28
Crisis 32
Resolution 36
3 Reaching Maturity, 1177-1206 38
The Order and the Settlements in the Levant 38
Hattin 41
The Aftermath 43
The Third Crusade 45
The Order in Disarray 47
The Statutes of Margat 50
4 The Order and the Politics of the Latin East, 1201-1244 52
Responsibility without Power 52
Taking Sides 53
The Barons' Crusade and the Battle of la Forbie 62
Part II The Mission
5 Nursing the Sick and Burying the Dead 69
Servitude 69
Nursing 70
Burials 76
The Cost of Ambivalence 78
6 Defending Christians 81
Caravans 81
The Components of a Hospitaller Force 82
Advice 85
Castles 89
Turning to the Sea 92
Part III The Order
7 Members 97
Reception 98
Brother Priests 99
Brother Knights 101
Brother Sergeants 104
Sisters of St John 105
Confratres 107
8 Conventual Life 110
Levantine Communities 110
Buildings 111
Living Conditions 114
Justice 119
9 The Master, His Convent and the Chapter General 126
The Master 126
The Master's Convent 128
Tongues 128
Chapters and the Chapter General 129
Constitutional Conflict 133
10 The Conventual Bailiffs and Their Departments 140
The Cure of Souls 141
The Providers 142
The Functionaries 145
Part IV Assets
11 An Exempt Order of the Church 155
Exemptions 155
Reaction 157
The Latin East 161
Some Case Studies 163
12 The Estate in the Levant 171
The Estate 171
Exploitation 174
Management 178
Competition 180
13 Provincial Government and the Estate in Europe 185
Necessity 185
The Origins of the Provincial Structure 187
Hospitaller Officers 189
Commanderies 191
Priories, Capitular Commanderies and Capitular Castellanies 193
Grand Commanderies 199
Part V The End of the Beginning
14 The Loss of the Mainland, 1244-1291 205
After La Forbie 205
The Defence of the South-Eastern Frontier 207
Hugh Revel 208
The Last Years of the Settlement 210
Roger of Stanegrave 213
15 Interlude on Cyprus, 1291-1309 215
After the Fall of Acre 215
Criticism and the Projected Union of the Orders 216
Internal Trouble 218
Constitutional Conflict in the Kingdom of Cyprus 220
The Fall of the Templars 222
Rhodes 223
The Crusade of 1310 224
Epilogue 229
Appendix: Masters of the Hospital 233
Notes 234
Bibliography 302
Index 318
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