Medievalists.net » Rhodes http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Religion, Warfare and Business in Fifteenth Century Rhodes http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/25/religion-warfare-and-business-in-fifteenth-century-rhodes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/25/religion-warfare-and-business-in-fifteenth-century-rhodes/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:38:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36689 How did a military-monastic order manage the resources of an island commercially asimportant as that of Rhodes while overcoming the limitations due to its patrimonial struc-tureto cover their defensive needs? In this essay weattempt to answer this question interms of practice and in the light of relationsthatthe Knights maintained with two distinctgroups of merchants: the Catalan-Aragonese and the Florentines.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/25/religion-warfare-and-business-in-fifteenth-century-rhodes/feed/ 0 ‘Images of the Other: Venice’s Perception of the Knights of Malta’ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/15/images-of-the-other-venices-perception-of-the-knights-of-malta/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/15/images-of-the-other-venices-perception-of-the-knights-of-malta/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:15:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34809 The hostile perception which Venice generally entertained of the Knights Hospitallers on Rhodes and Malta was not an attitude which the Republic secretly assumed and secretly endeavoured with much effort to disguise.

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