Bernard Hamilton (1932-2019) was Professor of Crusading History at the University of Nottingham. His numerous publications include The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (2000), Religion in the Medieval West (2003) and The Christian World of the Middle Ages (2013). Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of Crusading and the Crusader States (2nd Edition, 2017), The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002), The Perfection of Solitude: Hermits and Months in the Crusader States (1995) as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals.

• Part I: Latin Monasticism: 1. The Latin presence in the levant before 1097; 2. The Austin canons; 3. The premonstratensian canons; 4. The canons regular of St. Ruf, avignon, in the county of Tripoli; 5. Benedictine monasteries; 6. Benedictine convents; 7. Benedictine monasteries in the tradition of St. Romuald and St. Peter damian; 8. The Cistercians; 9. The Carmelites; 10. The franciscan provincia terrae sanctae; 11. The dominican provincia terrae sanctae; 12. Antiochene monasteries of uncertain rite; Part II: Greek orthodox monasticism: 13. Orthodox monasteries in the crusader states: a survey; 14. Institutional life in Greek monasteries; 15. Aspects of spiritual life in Greek monasteries; 16. Reading, writing and representation.

'A remarkable achievement! Andrew Jotischky and the late Bernard Hamilton break new ground in this comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of Latin and Greek monasticism. An important contribution to the history of both the Latin and East and the wider world of medieval monastic endeavours.' Peter Edbury, University of Cardiff