Further Research - Selected Bibliography

www.orderofmalta.org - This website of the Order of Malta is published by the communications office in Rome.

www.hmml.org - This is the website for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at St. John's University in Minnesota. This Benedictine university is the home of the Malta Study Center, possibly the preeminent research facility dedicated to the history of the Order of Malta.

www.saintjohn.org - This web site is published by the Historiographer of the Venerable Order of St. John. Provides excellent description of the allied orders of Saint John and a full discussion of the false orders.

Books in Print

• The Knights of Malta by Attard, Joseph, San Gwann, Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group, 1992.
• Histoire des Chevaliers de l'Ordre de S. Iean de Hiervsalem; contenant levr admirable institution & police by Bosio, Iacomo, (Paris, 1643).
• The Knights Hospitaller by Nicholson, Helen, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2001.
• Hospitallers: the history of the Order of St. John by Riley-Smith, Jonathan, London: Hambledon Press, 1999.
• The Knights of Malta, by H.J.A. Sire, 1994. Yale University Press. 305 pp., soft cover with color illustrations and maps; available in bookstores and through Federal Association office ($35) ;
• A Brief History of the Order of Malta, by Fra' James-Michael von Stroebel, 44 pp., soft cover booklet provides a concise introduction to the past and present of the Order, with special sections on the 3 US associations; available from Federal Association office ($5) ;
• The Knights of Malta, 900 Years of Care, by Rosita McHugh, 1996. Published by the Irish Association of the Order of Malta [fax: 353.1.668.5288]; 197 pp.
• The Monks of War, the Military Religious Orders, by Desmond Seward, 1972, Penguin Books. 415 pp.
• The Knights of Rhodes, the Palace and the City, by Elias Kollias, 1991. Edkotike Athenon S.A. 176 pp.
• Hugh Revel - Master of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, 1258-1277, by Cecil Humphrey Smith, 1994. Phillmore & Co., Ltd., West Sussex, England. 136 pp.
• Fortresses of the Knights, by Stephen C. Spiteri, Book Distributors Limited, Hamrun, Malta
• Crisis Magazine, volume 12, Number 9, October 1994. Published by the Brownson Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 1066, Notre Dame, IN 46556. October 1994 articles:
  • "Thanks to the Knights of Malta - three experiences that changed my life" - William Simon
  • "The new Knights and Dames - thousands serve our lords the sick" - John Saffian
  • "A Spiritual Heritage for the Laity, the 4th oldest lay religious order" - W. S. Abell
  • "The Knights of St. John" - Henry Lane Hull, PhD
  • "The Great Battles - crusading for the church against all odds" - Leonard Liggio, PhD

Rare Books

One of the outstanding collections of materials relating to the history of the Order is the Order of Malta Collection of the Mullen Library of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The collection is a part of the library's rare books department and may be viewed only by making an appointment with the curator of the Rare Books Department.

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