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During the period of the Crusades (1099–1291), the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, or Hospitallers, developed into one of the largest institutional landholders in the Latin East and Europe. This thesis examines the acquisition policy of the Order a…

This study focuses on the military and political activity of the three great military orders--the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights--in the eastern Mediterranean during a critical juncture in their history. It begins in 1291, with the catastrophic loss of the city of …