Hospitaller Women In The Middle Ages

Download or read book Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages written by Anthony Luttrell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. It explores the roles which the Hospitaller sisters performed within their Order; examines the problems of having men and women living within the same or adjoining houses; studies relations between the Order and the patrons of its women's houses; and looks at the career of a prominent woman within the Order during the Middle Ages.