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Contributors include Ane L. Bysted, Daniel Franke, Helen J. Nicholson, James Naus, Jessalynn Bird, John D. Hosler, John France, Jonathan P. Phillips, Jonathan Rubin, Katrine Funding Højgaard, Stephen Bennett, Stephen J. Spencer, and Thomas W. Smith.

Contributors also engage with communication theory, the history of emotions, textual criticism, historiography, archaeology, and topography, offering a timely reassessment of this pivotal historical event.

Chapters explore causes, organization, participants, military progress, and the short- and long-term outcomes of the Third Crusade.

This collection offers fresh perspectives on one of the largest and most complex crusades ever launched. Covering all aspects of the expeditions — from preparation and commencement to results and consequences — it examines both western and eastern societies in a cross-cultural framework.

(Hamburg-Altona, Christianeum, Codex Altonensis, fol. 12r)

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The manuscript depicts Camilla and Penthesilea in the top right, Electra, Hector, and Aeneas in the bottom left, while Saladin sits all alone. Dante’s inclusion of Saladin as the only Muslim ruler speaks to the high status he enjoyed in the European imagination.

This is the place for those who died before baptism and who were born before the birth of Christ. Dante describes that in Limbo there is a castle where the souls of the heroes of antiquity and the great pagan scholars and philosophers reside.

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Dr. Gullo will present his recent and ongoing work on several digitisation projects related to the Order of St John, followed by a discussion on future plans at HMML.

The Hospitaller Studies Group is pleased to announce the third and final HRF session of the year.
This session will feature Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, Joseph S. Micallef Director of the Malta Study Center at the HMML - Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (St. John’s University, Minnesota, USA).

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Recently restored and reopened to visitors, the Templar's Chapel of Laon continues to bear witness to the enduring spiritual and architectural legacy of the Templars in medieval France.

The first images show from left to right: John II, Manuel I, Alexios II, Andronikos I, Isaac II, and Alexios III. The third image depicts Alexios IV, the young claimant put on the throne by the armies of the Fourth Crusade, and Alexios V Mourtzouphlos (bushy-eyebrowed) Doukas.