Nicholas Morton is a lecturer in history at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research interests include the Crusades, the military orders, Christian-Islamic relations during the medieval period and the Seljuk Turks. He has published extensively on these themes, and his recent monographs include The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East and Encountering Islam on the First Crusade. He is an editor for two Routledge book series: Rulers of the Latin East and The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources and Memory.

Introduction Property: landholdings (Malta); The properties and landed possessions of the Knights of St. John in Malta: an analysis of Cabrei 290 and 307 conserved at the National Library of Malta; Representing Space: Surveying and Drawing Techniques in the Maltese Cabrei of the Order of St. John (XVII-XVIII Century); The Economization of Built Property: Urban Houses of the Manoel Foundation in Eighteenth Century Valletta; Property: landholdings elsewhere; The remains of Templar settlements in southern Italy: some case studies; Collecting Property for the Founding of a Teutonic House in Utrecht (1218-1235); Power, Status and Property in the Early Years of the Teutonic Order in Acre; Piety and Property in Late Medieval and Early Modern Rhodes: The case of Trianda; Property and Piety: economic activity and material culture; A multidisciplinary approach to the production of wine on Templar estates: the Bologna commandery; The commanderies of the Military Order of Santiago around Campo de Ourique (Portugal) in the Middle Ages: properties, resources and administration; The art collections of Hospitaller knights in Malta; Property and Pugnacity: serfs, slaves and slave-trading: 'Our Moors': Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile; The Hospitallers and their Manumissions of Rhodian and Cypriot Serfs (1409-1459); The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530-1798; Property, Piety and Pugnacity: internal politics and vocations: Networking at the papal curia as a survival strategy: the Teutonic Order and the crisis of the military orders in the early fourteenth century; Hospitaller Chapters in the Medieval Priory of Alamania; Abandoning Piety and Pugnacity? New Military Orders in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The Knights Hospitallers of St John in Polish Lands and Rhodes in the late Middle Ages: piety, pugnacity, property, and power on peripheries; Property, Piracy, and Pugnacity: Reflections on Venice's Attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in Early Modern Times; Variations on a theme: Harry Pirie-Gordon and the Order of Sanctissima Sophia; Piety: charity and spirituality: The charity of the Order of Santiago at the end of the Middle Ages: The case of the hospital of Alarcón; The Teutonic Knights, the bishop of Warmia and the relics of the True Cross in Prussia in the second half of the Fourteenth century; The patron saints of military orders' churches in Castile and Portugal, 1462-1539; Pugnacity and Property on the frontier: The Military Orders and the Principality of Antioch: A Help or a Hindrance? A Document about the Beginning of the Military Orders' Involvement in the Reconquista; From Pugnacity to peace-mongers: The Military Orders protecting property and people in the Latin East; Hospitaller Pugnacity: 1306-1421; A Florentine Cleric on Rhodes: Bonsignore Bonsignori's unpublished account of his 1498 visit; The Long Siege of Candia (1648-69): the Knights of St John, a Venetian Protectorate, the Ottoman Empire and a Scottish regiment. Index.