The Hopitallers in the Mediveval Kingdom of Hungary c. 1150-1387, Hunyadi Zsolt, METEM-CEU, 2010

ISBN: 9789639662445 / 978-9639662445
ISSN: 1217-2669

Pages: 374

Description:

The Order of Saint John – the Knights Hospitallers – is one of the oldest surviving religious orders. In the middle ages it had its headquarters in the East but its activities there depended for men, money and political support on its Western preceptories and priories. Most of them relied on local materials without utilizing the Order’s central archives, the remains of which are now on Malta. There have, more recently, been books on priories which partly made use of the Malta documents. The work of Zsolt Hunyadi is a further addition both to the study of particular Hospitaller priories and to the history of the order as a whole. A major problem faced by the author was the dramatic loss of archives and documents in Hungary, a difficulty which he laboured admirably to counter in Malta and elsewhere. In one way, it is precisely because developments in the Hungarian priory were so different from those elsewhere that Hunyadi’s work is of such interest.