This book is homage to the work of Alan J. Forey, who has substantially advanced scholarship on the medieval military religious orders. It comprises an appreciation of his work and a range of research that has been inspired by his scholarship.

Introduction PART I The Iberian Peninsula, archives, and documents 1 The Iberian military-religious orders in the earliest papal registers of supplications, 1342–1362 2 Pelayo Pérez Correa and the international ambitions of the Order of Santiago 3 The identity of Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragon and economics (XII–XIII centuries) 4 Hospitallers, Templars, and the papacy in the twelfth century: the issue of historical agency PART II The Eastern Mediterranean 5 Descriptions of fighting, captivity, and ransom in the writings of Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem, in the mid-thirteenth century 6 Continuing the Continuation: Eracles 1248–1277 7 Some observations on Hospitaller agricultural activities in the Latin East prior to the fall of Acre in 1291 8 Sergeants in the Rule of the Templars 9 Shared worship at Filerimos on Hospitaller Rhodes: 1306–1421 PART III The trial of the Templars and its after-history 10 The beard and the habit in the Templars’ trial: membership, rupture, resistance 11 The Templar Order in public and cultural debate in France during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesPART IV Beyond Forey’s foundations: the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries12 Cooking the books: the report of Philip de Thame and financial crisis in fourteenth-century Britain13 Military order castles in the Holy Land and Prussia: a case for cultural history 14 A crusade against the Poles? Johannes Falkenberg’s ‘Satira’ (1412) 15 Die welt ist kranck. The Teutonic Order and the Prussian Union at the court of Frederick III (1452/53)16 What the Hospitaller said to the bishop