Hospitallers
Dear Sylwia,
Welcome to the list! (Have you passed the
poetry-composition test yet?)
On the Hospitallers--who, as you know, are often called the
"Knights of Malta"--you might begin with Boleslaw B
Szczesniak.
The Knights Hospitallers in Poland and Lithuania. (The Hague:
Mouton, 1969).
There is a Polish volume I've come across and noted down in case
anyone ever translates it (I cannot, alas, read Polish): Pawel
Czerwinski, "Zakon Maltanski i stosunki jego z Polska na
przestrzeni dziejow: szkie historyczny". ( Polski Osrodek
Naukowy, 1964).
The bibliography is quite extensive and includes many local
studies, or studies bounded in time. Broader works
include:
E. D. S. Bradford, "The Shield and the Sword: The Knights
of St. John, Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta. (New York, Dutton,
1973).
H. J. A. Sire. The Knights of Malta. (New Haven :
Yale University Press, 1996).
J. S. C. Riley-Smith. "Hospitallers : The History of
the Order of St. John. (London: Hambledon Press, 1999)
There's a decent Catholic Encyclopedia article on the
Hospitallers at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07477a.htm, though on "the present state of the order" it's
obviously dated. We actually have a chapter of the Knights here
in little Richmond, Indiana. They have what friends tell me is
a very nice meeting and drinking hall and give lots of money to
children's hospitals and the missions.
A fellow named Norman Redington, about whom I know nothing, has
compiled a Website with some interesting bibliography and links:
http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/ecole/ksj.html
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Patrick J. Nugent
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA
(765) 983-1413
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