Mendicants, Military Orders, and Regionalism in Medieval Europe

Jurgen Sarnowsky, University of Hamburg, Germany

• Contents: Introduction: Regional problems in the history of the Mendicant and Military Orders, Jürgen Sarnowsky; Religious Orders in Border Regions: Religious frontiers: Bonds and tensions on the frontier: the Templars in 12th century Western Catalonia, Nikolas Jaspert; Political Frontiers: The Knights Hospitaller on the frontiers of the British Isles, Helen Nicholson; Linguistic Frontiers: Quelques aspects de comparaison entre les commanderies de l’Ordre teutonique à Metz et à Liège au moyen-âge, Dieter Heckmann; Different Levels of Regional Influence: Popes and Emperors: From the Holy Land to Prussia: the Teutonic Knights between emperors and popes and their policies until 1309, Klaus Militzer; Kings: Kings and priors: the Hospitaller priory of England in the later 15th century, Jürgen Sarnowsky; Dynasties: Between international horizon and regional boundary; the Bohemian crosiers of the Red Star in Silesia, Andreas Rüther; Lesser Nobility: The ’Hospice of the German nobility’: changes in the admission policy of the Teutonic Knights in the 15th century, Johannes A. Mol; Bishops and Towns: The Basle Dominicans between town and province, Bernhard Neidiger; Nations, Regions and the Internal Structures of Religious Orders: Multinationality and Local Foundations: Local ties and international connections of the London Mendicants, Jens Röhrkasten, Regional Influences and Internal Divisions: change and conflict within the Hospitaller province of Italy after 1291, Anthony Luttrell; National Influences and Internal Divisions: The Hospitallers, Bohemia and the Empire, 1250-1330, Karl Borchardt; Economic Influences and Internal Divisions: King Wenceslas and the dissolution of the Teutonic Order’s Bohemian Bailiwick, Libor Jan; Orders, Regions and Art: The Mendicant Orders and their architecture in Scotland, Anneli Randla; Conclusion: Mendicants, Military Orders and Regionalism, Jürgen Sarnowsky; Index.

'...the bibliography...takes up a good thirty pages and therefore represents an indispensable tool for anyone who wishes to approach the study of the religious orders in the Middle Ages.' Studi Medievali