The land and the cross properties of the order of St John between centre and periphery (16th-18th centuries)

1 Introduction: The Religion and the LandEmanuel Buttigiegand Rakele FiottPART 1: POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY2 Serving the Convent: The commanderies of the Order of St John in the sixteenth centuryAnne Brogini3 European dynasticism and Hospitaller interest: The Grand Priory of Castile and León at the end of the reign of Charles II of Habsburg (1679-1700)Roberto Quirós Rosado 4 The Order of the Knights Hospitaller: Wealthy landowners?Alain Blondy5 In the shadows of Secularisation, Church policy and Febronianism. The transfer of the property of the Societas Jesu to the Bavarian Grand Priory of the Order of St JohnThomas FrellerPART 2: ARCHIVES AND INSTITUTIONS6 'Per la distanza de' luoghi e per la varietà delle Nationi': People, properties and archival procedures of the Order of St John in the early modern periodValeria Vanesio7 The Sicilian Priory of Messina and its commanderies from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuryFabrizio D'Avenia8 The commanderies de jure patronatus in the Venetian Mainland from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century: Land, control and powerLuigi Robuschi9 Dispersed archives, authority control and the land surveys of the Order ofSt John of JerusalemDaniel K. GulloPART 3: PATRIMONIAL NETWORKS10 The Patrimonial network and heritage of the Order of St John in Portugal in the late medieval and early modern periodPaula Maria de Carvalho Pinto Costa11 Artistic landscape and visual memory: The Order of St John in the Crown of CastileOlga Pérez Monzón12 The Order, its city, and its peripheries: Rural-urban dialectics in early modern MaltaDaniel Borgand Christian Mifsud13 The cabrei of the Order of St John in Malta as a means of communication to transmit power and material wealthGeorge A. Said-Zammit14 Hospitaller commanderies as an international phenomenon: The lens of architectural sources in the early modern Italian StatesValentina BurgassiAfterword Victor Mallia-Milanes