Knights of Saint John

The southern Italian city of Amalfi had risen to prosperity by trading with Constantinople. Moreover, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Amalfitans were the only Latin Christians to maintain a monastery on Mount Athos. Of even greater significance, the merchant Mauro, the chief supporter of the lay brothers whose community would eventually become the Knights of Saint John, had a perma-... 

The most complete history of the Knights of Saint John is Riley-Smith. Knights. See also Waldstein-Wartenberg, Vassalen, and the articles in Military Orders (see Kedar). For their connection with Byzantium, see Miller, "Knights," pp. 728-31. 

MiUer, Timothy S. "The Knights of Saint John and the Hospitals of the Latin West. Spectdum 53 (1978) 709-33. 

Riley-Smith, Jonathan S. C. The Knights of Saint John in Jerusalem and Cyprus (iojo-1310). London Macmillan, 1967. 

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