Hospitallers and Others

Christie Majoros is an independent scholar who completed a doctorate at Cardiff University. Her research centers on the properties of the Hospitallers in Britain and Ireland and the brethren who inhabited them. Her publications include "Cooking the Books: The Report of Philip de Thame and Financial Crisis in Fourteenth Century Britain" in The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey (2020), and "Through the Local Lens: Re-Examining the Function of the Hospitallers in England," in The Military Orders: Culture and Conflict. Vol. 6.2 (2016).

Maria Bonet Donato is professor of Medieval History at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Her research focuses on military orders, particularly the Hospitallers. She also has studied social and economic relationships in medieval Catalonia. Recently, she has published "The Identity of the Hospitallers in the Crown of Aragon and Economics (XII-XIII Centuries)" in The Templars, The Hospitallers and the Crusades: Essays in Homage to Alan J. Forey (2020) and "Organizing Violence. Peace and War in Twelfth Century Catalonia" in Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic Societies, II (2022). Along with Julia Pavon Benito, she co-authored "Religiosidad de los laicos en torno a la orden del Hospital en la Corona de Aragon" in Ordenes militares y religiosidad (c. 1150-1550). Ideologia, memoria y cultura material (2023).

Julia Pavon Benito is professor of Medieval History and has served as the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Navarra since 2020. Her research focuses on the Kingdom of Navarra during the High Middle Ages, medieval death, and the Orders of the Hospital and Temple. She has edited several works, including Death and the Medieval Man (2007), Medieval Queens of Navarra (2014), The Order of Saint John in Jerusalem: Medieval Panoramas and Peninsular Trajectories (2013) with Maria Bonet Donato, and Rewriting the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century III: Political Theory and Practice (2015).