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The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe. Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell. Edited by Karl Borchardt, Nikolas Jaspert, and Helen J. Nicholson. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2007. Pp. xiv, 321. $114.95. ISBN 978-0-754-66275-4.)
To do justice to Tony Luttrell 's scholarly influence and interests in a single Festschrift is surely a daunting task, and therefore the editors of the present volume were well advised to put as few restrictions as possible on the thematic focus of the papers they hoped to collect and let the wide spectrum of topics that made it into the collection speak for itself. The result is a kaleidoscope of twenty-two generally highly informative articles spanning chronologically from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (and in the case of Jonathan Riley-Smith's thoughts on the history of the military orders even beyond) and geographically from Ireland to Jerusalem, from the Iberian Peninsula to Hungary, and from Rhodes to the Baltic. The articles are put into rudimentary thematic order under the headings "The Crusader Period," "Rhodes and the Latin East," and "The Military-Religious Orders in the West." All but one (Elizabeth A....