Medieval Greece : Encounters between Latins, Greeks and others in the Dodecanese and the Mani

by: Heslop, M.

Medieval Greece
Encounters Between Latins, Greeks and Others in the Dodecanese and the Mani

By Michael Heslop

Description

Medieval Greece brings together twelve articles by historian Michael Heslop, showcasing his long-standing interest in the medieval castles of Greece.

Ten of the articles in this volume focus on the Dodecanese islands, mainly Rhodes, at the time of their rule by the Hospitallers during the period 1306–1522. Scholarly and popular interest in the military orders has grown substantially over the last twenty years, but comparatively little has been written about the Hospitaller Dodecanese. What distinguishes this work is the author?s use of hitherto unpublished documents from the Hospitaller archives in Malta and his assiduous field work on the island sites discussed. Heslop?s work on the Hospitallers on the island of Rhodes has also enabled him to put together an important gazetteer of place-names in the countryside of Rhodes, published here for the first time. The remaining two chapters of the collection summarize ground-breaking detective work to locate Villehardouin?s ?lost? castle of Grand Magne in the Mani, and present a wider study of Byzantine fortifications in medieval Greece.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval history, and to all those interested in the history of the Hospitallers. (CS1093).

Table of Contents
Introduction

1. The search for the defensive system of the Knights in Southern Rhodes

The Military Orders, Volume 4: On Land and Sea, ed. Judi Upton Ward (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 189–200

2. The search for the defensive system of the Knights in the Dodecanese (Part I: Chalki, Symi, Nisyros and Tilos)

On the Margins of Crusading: The Military Orders, the Papacy and the Christian World. Crusades Subsidia 4, ed. Helen Nicholson (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 139–165

3. The search for the defensive system of the Knights in the Dodecanese (Part II: Leros, Kalymnos, Kos and Bodrum)

Archaeology and Architecture of the Military Orders: New Studies, ed. Mathias Piana & Christer Carlsson (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 29–67

4. Hospitaller statecraft in the Aegean: island polity and mainland power?

The Military Orders, Volume 6.1: Culture and Conflict in the Mediterranean World, ed. Jochen Schenk and Mike Carr (Routledge, 2017), pp. 123–136

5. The countryside of Rhodes and its defences under the Hospitallers, 1306–1423. Evidence from unpublished documents and the late medieval texts and maps of Cristoforo Buondelmonti

Crusades, Volume 15 2016 (Routledge, 2017), pp. 177–197

6. Defending the frontier: the Hospitallers in Northern Rhodes

The Struggle for Supremacy: The Mediterranean World in 1453 and Beyond, ed. George Cassar, Dane Munro & Noel Buttigieg (Malta, Sacra Militia Foundation, 2018), pp. 31–38 (text), 73–79 (maps)

7. Rhodes 1306–1423: the landscape evidence and Latin-Greek cohabitation

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Volume 41, No 1 (2019), pp. 83–104

8. A Florentine cleric on Rhodes: Bonsignore Bonsignori?s unpublished account of his 1498 visit

The Military Orders, Volume 7: Piety, Pugnacity and Property, ed. Nicholas Morton (Routledge, 2019), pp. 329–344

9. The defences of Middle Byzantium in Greece (seventh–twelfth centuries): the flight to safety in town, countryside and island

Nikos D. Kontogiannis and Michael Heslop, Byzantine Greece, Microcosm of Empire: Proceedings of the 46th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, 23–25 March 2013 (Routledge, forthcoming)

10. Prelude to a Gazetteer of place-names in the countryside of Rhodes 1306–1423: evidence from unpublished documents

Crusades, Volume 18 (Routledge, 2020)

11. Villehardouin?s castle of Grand Magne (Megali Maini): a re-assessment of the evidence for its location

Crusading and Archaeology, Crusades Subsidia, Papers from the 9th Conference of the SSCLE, Odense, Denmark, 2017 (Routledge, 2020)

12. A Gazetteer of place-names in the countryside of Rhodes 1306–1423

(previously unpublished)

Medieval Greece : Encounters between Latins, Greeks and others in the Dodecanese and the Mani

by: Heslop, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780367568634 / 978-0-367-56863-4
• ISBN-03: 0367568632 / 0-367-56863-2
• Routledge, London, 2021