Venice and the Knights Hospitallers of Rhodes in the Fourteenth Century

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ID10967189
AuthorsAnthony Luttrell (corresponding author), A T Luttrell
Year1958
Volume26
Pages195-212
Publication date1958-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePapers of the British School at Rome (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0068-2462 • E-ISSN: 2045-239X
PublisherOpen Book Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0068246200007091
OpenAlexW2321404451
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited1

In Gentile Bellini's painting of a Venetian festa a knight of the Order of St. John stands alone in the Piazza of San Marco. He is dressed in a black cloak adorned with the eight-pointed cross of the Hospitallers and is attended by a single page. The ecclesiastical and lay dignitaries of the Republic file solemnly past; but he has no part in the ceremony and his posture suggests an awareness that the presence of the Order was resented. For two centuries both Venice and the Hospitallers were among the foremost opponents of the Turks in the Mediterranean, but a deep antipathy existed between them. Allies by force of circumstance, their attitudes towards the infidels were in strong contrast and united action often became impossible. On the one side, were traditional elements in Venetian policy, the pre-eminence of trading interests, independence of the church and an opportunist exploitation of crusading ideals; on the other, the Hospitallers' alliance with Venice's greatest rival, Genoa. The Hospital's Priory of Venice was founded in the twelfth century and by the fourteenth included houses in many parts of Emilia and the Romagna, mostly outside Venetian territory

Alliance · Ancient history · Antipathy · Archaeology · Art · Ceremony · Independence (probability theory · Knight · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · History · Law · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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