The Order of St. John always paid special attention to the publications documenting its military activities, in order to justify both its mission in defence of the faith and its requests to Christian princes for human and material resources. This editorial investment was particularly strong after the dramatic sieges of Rhodes (1480, 1522) and Malta (1565) by the Ottomans. In 1619, just a few years after the Order’s new landing in Malta, "Il glorioso trionfo della sacrosanta religion militare de’ nobili, valorosi e invitti cavalieri di S. Giovanni Gierosolimitano" was published in Italian and Spanish. This article analyses the narrative strategies used in this text within the context of coeval literature on the Crusades and the “Christian so...
This article aims to provide a general overview of the phenomenon of the so-called “late crusades”, ...
The First Crusade had gathered together a new cavalry in defence of Christianity and of the Church o...
After reviewing the scholarly debate on the sacralization of war and the symbolic centrality of Jeru...
The Order of St. John always paid special attention to the publications documenting its military act...
After the fall of Rhodes (1522), the Order of St. John needed to recover its reputation as militia C...
International audienceThis paper deals with a crucial stage in the history of the Church in its rela...
In 1645, a couple of days after the celebration of the festival associated with the Otto Settembre -...
Within the context of the multiform struggle against the enemies of the Church during the pontificat...
In 1569, Pius v dispatched an expeditionary force to assist the royal armies in the Third War of Rel...
The excellent publications of J. Riley-Smith and M. Bull have led the historians to reject the old t...
This article is devoted to the study of the participation of four catalano-aragonese Military Orders...
The article analyses unpublished instructions written by a vice-prior of the Order of St. John in th...
International audienceThis paper focuses on spirituality and visual exegesis, which, in the XIIIth c...
L’itinérance et la guerre ont constitué deux thèmes fédérateurs au sein de la propagande de croisade...
The Order of the Knights of St John was officially founded in Jerusalem in 1113 as a Hospitaller Ord...
This article aims to provide a general overview of the phenomenon of the so-called “late crusades”, ...
The First Crusade had gathered together a new cavalry in defence of Christianity and of the Church o...
After reviewing the scholarly debate on the sacralization of war and the symbolic centrality of Jeru...
The Order of St. John always paid special attention to the publications documenting its military act...
After the fall of Rhodes (1522), the Order of St. John needed to recover its reputation as militia C...
International audienceThis paper deals with a crucial stage in the history of the Church in its rela...
In 1645, a couple of days after the celebration of the festival associated with the Otto Settembre -...
Within the context of the multiform struggle against the enemies of the Church during the pontificat...
In 1569, Pius v dispatched an expeditionary force to assist the royal armies in the Third War of Rel...
The excellent publications of J. Riley-Smith and M. Bull have led the historians to reject the old t...
This article is devoted to the study of the participation of four catalano-aragonese Military Orders...
The article analyses unpublished instructions written by a vice-prior of the Order of St. John in th...
International audienceThis paper focuses on spirituality and visual exegesis, which, in the XIIIth c...
L’itinérance et la guerre ont constitué deux thèmes fédérateurs au sein de la propagande de croisade...
The Order of the Knights of St John was officially founded in Jerusalem in 1113 as a Hospitaller Ord...
This article aims to provide a general overview of the phenomenon of the so-called “late crusades”, ...
The First Crusade had gathered together a new cavalry in defence of Christianity and of the Church o...
After reviewing the scholarly debate on the sacralization of war and the symbolic centrality of Jeru...