Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Editor's Preface -- Address by Father Bernhard Demel, OT -- Introduction -- Part I Welfare -- 1 A Twelfth-Century description of the Jerusalem Hospital -- Appendix: A Provisional Edition of Clm. 4620, fol. 132v-139v -- 2 Medical Care in the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem -- 3 Arabic Medicine and Hospitals in the Middle Ages: a Probable Model for the Military Orders' Care of the Sick -- 4 The Archaeological Approach to the Study of Disease in the Crusader States, as employed at Le Petit Gerin -- 5 The Role of Hospitals in the Teutonic Order -- 6 Welfare and Warfare in the Teutonic Order: a Survey -- 7 Knightly Hospitallers or Crusading Knights? Decisive Factors for the Spread of the Teutonic Knights in the Rhineland and the Low Countries, 1216-1300 -- Part II Warfare -- 8 Archbishop Henry of Reims and the Militarization of the Hospitallers -- 9 Templar Castles between Jaffa and Jerusalem -- 10 Before William of Tyre: European Reports on the Military Orders' Deeds in the East, 1150-1185 -- 11 Horses and Crossbows: Two Important Warfare Advantages of the Teutonic Order in Prussia -- 12 The Hospitallers during Clement V's Pontificate: the Spoiled Sons of the Papacy? -- 13 English Contributions to the Hospitaller Castle at Bodrum in Turkey: 1407-1437 -- 14 The Price of Hospitaller Crusading Warfare in the Eighteenth Century: the Maltese Consulate on Zante -- Part III Life Within the Military Orders -- 15 Literacy and Learning in the Military Orders during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- 16 A New Edition of the Latin and French Rule of the Temple -- 17 Wind Beneath the Wings: Subordinate Headquarters Officials in the Hospital and the Temple from the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries