Hospitaller Aesthetics: The Self-Fashioning of a Supranational Military Religious Order

The Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem was founded in the late eleventh century to assist sick and indigent pilgrims in the Holy Land. Its mission expanded in the twelfth century to include fighting alongside crusaders in the Levant. Hospitaller activities became bifurcated, exhibiting b...

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