1522 Siege of Rhodes

Simon David Phillips is a research fellow in late medieval and early modern history at the University of Cyprus. His main research interests are on the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes, ecclesiastical history, and the history of islands. His publications include the monograph The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England and, with Emanuel Buttigieg, the collected volume Islands and Military Orders, c. 1291–c.1798. In 2013, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta in the Spring semester on the Hospitaller Studies Masters course. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• Introduction / Part I: Causes / Hospitallers and Ottomans between the two great sieges of Rhodes (1480-1522) / How much did the Hospitallers know? Information, Misinformation and Preparation / Part II: Course / The Hospitallers' Dodecanese Islands Before and During the 1522 Siege of Rhodes: Help or Hindrance? / How the Sultan Won: Suleiman’s Successful Siege Tactics at Rhodes / The last days of Hospitaller Rhodes: The ‘Greek View’ of the siege of 1522 / Part III: Consequences / ‘Vol veder di aver Brandizo ovvero Malta’: A Hospitaller Odyssey from Rhodes to Malta, 1523-1530 / The Fortress and Town of Rhodes according to the Ottoman Survey after the 1522 Siege / The effects of the 1522 siege on the town of Rhodes and its fortifications / The Siege of Rhodes and the Kingdom of Hungary / ‘In tot acerrimis conflictibus’: Citations for Good Conduct during the 1522 Siege of Rhodes in Hospitaller Records

'Overall, the volume opens up interesting new perspectives on the event, not least because it is largely based on intensive source studies. The contributions of the distinguished international group of authors make it clear that the siege was of great importance not only for the history of the eastern Mediterranean, but also for the Latin West and the further development of the Order' - Jürgen Sarnowsky, Ordines Militares XXX (translated from German).‘The contributions to this volume were prepared and assembled in the context of a global pandemic, and no doubt the connections between the papers that this reviewer has attempted to highlight would have emerged at the planned conference that was never held. It is a testament to the contributors and the editor that the result is both informative and stimulating, despite the limitations they faced and overcame’ - Crusades, Volume 24:2.