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This comparative study focuses on the history, organization, and personnel of the central convent, an institution at the heart of the international military religious orders of the Hospital and the Temple, in Jerusalem, Acre, and Cyprus, from 1099/1120 to 1310.

Jochen Burgtorf, Ph.D. (2001) in Medieval History, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, is Associate Professor of Medieval History at California State University, Fullerton. He has published several articles on the Hospitallers and Templars, and co-edited International Mobility in the Military Orders (Cardiff, 2006).