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Todd Kaeser · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject: Knights Hospitallar

Mark, I have been researching with great interest the Knights Hospitallar (What will become the Knights of St. John on Rhodes and Malta etc...) I have read "The Monks of War" by Desmond Seward and "The Shield and the Sword" by Ernle Bradford.

My question is - are there any other good books on the K of St. John/Hospitallars out there to continue my learning???

John Murphy · Legate Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1625

Alan Forey "The Military Orders - From the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries" 1992, ISBN (paperback ed) 0-8020-7680-7

Like the other works you mentioned this is wider in scope covering most of the military orders rather than focusing on the Hospital.

Todd Kaeser · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject: Thanks

John,

Thanks for the info - I am looking into learning more about the great siege of Rhodes in 1480. Very cool stuff indeed.

Todd

wargame692000 · Recruit Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

You may be interested in an historical novel called; The Shadow Of God: A Novel Of War And Faith by A. Goodman. It details the Ottoman seige of Rhodes. Highly recomended

Todd Kaeser · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks,

Just purchased it on Amazon - I'll start reading it in 5-15 days Very Happy

Todd K

Macbeth · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:00 am Post subject:

Not quite the same - but Ernle Brandford also produced a work called "The Great Seige" which is a narrative history of the seige of Malta -

Same two teams but a different venue for the deciding match Wink

I will leaf throug my references tonight and let you know some other books on Military Orders in general and the Knights Hospitaller in particular

Cheers

Todd Kaeser · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:01 am Post subject:

I'll probably check out the Bradford Great Siege book as well - thanks for the input.

What I'd love is the 1480 siege of Rhodes - very hard to find great depth. I have read numerous accounts of the siege, from Bradford as well, but they don't go into specifics that I like. I have searched through the internet and found a few names that I wanted. Plus, Bradford and others have given me the standard's (banner) information that I also needed.

Todd Kaeser

Macbeth · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject:

Hi Todd,

You could also try Helen Nicholson's "The Knights Hospitaller" - it is a general history of the order. It has been a while since I read it and so I can't remember how well it covers the siege of Rhodes.

Another surprising reference on the Hospitallers is 'Palestine of the Crusaders' by Phillipe Aziz. This appears to be part of a Readers Digest or Time Life collection - I picked it up cheap in a secondhand bookshop in Bendigo. About 1/3 of the book is dedicated to the Hospitallers and has interesting snippets of information including the words to their initiation ceremony.

Cheers

Todd Kaeser · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

wargame692000 · Recruit Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 34

No problems at all. One of the guys from our Gaming group in Sydney purchased it and I am sure it has been read by at least 6 gamers so far.

Cheers
Paul.