Jerusalem In England Research Articles

A King of Jerusalem in England: The Visit of John of Brienne in 1223

AbstractIn the autumn of 1223, John of Brienne paid a brief visit to England. This is unique, since it represents the one and only visit to England by a king of Jerusalem who was not entirely titular (that is, during the actual lifetime of the kingdom in the mainland Levant, from 1100 to 1291). This article will take John's visit as the centrepiece for a broader discussion of the impact that the king had on England, and vice versa, surveying the period from the late 1210s to the early 1230s. The article concludes that whilst the visit was something of an anomaly, it cannot be written off as a mere curiosity. It takes its place as one of a myriad of ways in which England was stitched into the very fabric of Latin Christendom in the first half of the thirteenth century, during the ‘golden age’ of crusading.

The Significance of “Mental Fight” in Ben Okri and William Blake

Opsomming Drawing principally from Mental Fight and Jerusalem, this article explores the ways in which both Ben Okri and William Blake prophesy the redemption of humanity through the power of words and the participation of all people in a new “dream” by means of which a more humane civilisation may be attained. It explores the significance of some of Blake's central symbols in relation to his vision of man's Fall and Redemption and how closely the poetry and prose of Ben Okri echo Blake's themes and motifs. By entitling one of his anthologies of poetry Mental Fight, Ben Okri succinctly acknowledges the Romantic poet William Blake as a source of inspiration. These two simple words, to anyone familiar with Blake's poetry, would immediately recall his impassioned declaration in Milton: I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant land. (Milton, 1804-1808 Preface ll. 13-16, K 481)

Reviews of Books:Leper Knights: The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c. 1150-1544 David Marcombe

Reviews of Books:Leper Knights: The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c. 1150-1544 David Marcombe

Medieval

Books reviewed: Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism. T. Reuter, Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh‐Centenary Conferences. Mark Duffy, Royal Tombs of Medieval England. Jacqueline Jenkins and Katherine J. Lewis (eds), St Katherine of Alexandria. Texts and Contexts in Western Medieval Europe. Patricia Skinner, The Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives. David Marcombe, Leper Knights: The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, 1150–1544. Peter Coss, The Origins of the English Gentry. Ralph Griffiths, The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs (eds), Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime, 1399–1406. Rosemary Tzanaki, Mandeville's Medieval Audiences: A Study on the Reception of the Book of Sir John Mandeville (1371–1550). J. B. Hattendorf and R. W. Unger (eds), War at Sea in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Carole Collier Frick, Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing.

Book Reviews

Lewis, Carenza, Mitchell‐Fox, Patrick and Dyer, Christopher Village, hamlet and field: Changing medieval settlements in central EnglandDobson, R.B. Church and society in the medieval north of EnglandGervers, Michael (ed.) The cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, 2: Prima CameraGoldberg, P.J.P. (trans. and ed.) Women in England, c. 1275–1525: documentary sourcesGriffiths, Paul, Fox, Adam and Hindle, Steve (eds.) The experience of authority in early modern EnglandGowing, Laura Domestic dangers: women, words and sex in early modern LondonHunt, Margaret R. The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680–1780Whatley, Christopher A. The industrial revolution in ScotlandKnowles, Anne Kelly Calvinists incorporated: Welsh immigrants on Ohio’s industrial frontierGurney, Peter Co‐operative culture and the politics of consumption in England 1870–1930Riley, James C. Sick, not dead: the health of British workingmen during the mortality declineBeik, William Urban protest in seventeenth‐century France: the culture of retributionGrouzet, François Britain, France and international commerce: from Louis XIV to VictoriaGreen, Nancy L. Ready‐to‐wear and ready‐to‐work: a century of industry and immigrants in Paris and New YorkBiggs, Lindy The rational factory: architecture, technology, and work in America’s age of mass productionRoy, William G. Socializing capital: the rise of the large industrial corporation in AmericaClarence‐Smith, William Gervase (ed.) Cocoa pioneer fronts since 1800: the role of smallholders, planters and merchantsFirmin‐Sellers, Kathryn The Transformation of property rights in the Gold CoastLee, James and Campbell, Cameron Fate and fortune in rural China: social organisation and population behaviour in Liaoning, 1774–1873Hanley, Susan B. Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture?ŒEichengreen, Barry Globalizing capital: a history of the international monetary system

The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Part 2, edited by Michael Gervers

<i>The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England,</i> Part 2, edited by Michael Gervers

The cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England. Part 2. Prima camera, Essex. by Michael Gervers. (Records of Social and Economic History, New Ser., 23.) Pp. cxii + 324 incl. map+frontispiece. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1996. £50. 0 19 726138 8

The cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England. Part 2. Prima camera, Essex. by Michael Gervers. (Records of Social and Economic History, New Ser., 23.) Pp. cxii + 324 incl. map+frontispiece. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1996. £50. 0 19 726138 8 - Volume 48 Issue 3

Book Reviews

King, Nicholas Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation (edited by Joel B. Green)Alison, James Resurrection Reconsidered (edited by Gavin D’Costa)Alison, James The Beginning and End of ‘Religion’ (by Nicholas Lash)Main, Roderick The Allure of Gnosticism: The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Psychology and Contemporary Culture (edited by Rogert Segal with June Singer and Murray Stein)Deane‐Drummond, Celia Beliefs and Biology: Theories of Life and Living (by Jennifer Trusted)Thomas, Janice The Mind and its World (by Gregory McColloch)Meynell, Hugo Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (byRobin Le Poidevin)Meynell, Hugo Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief (by Alan F. P. Sell)Waterfield, Robin The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3: Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras (trans. and comment. by R. E. Allen); The Plato Reader (by T. D. J. Chappell)Levi, Anthony Michel de Certau: Interpretation and its Other (by Jeremy Ahearne)Saliba, John Moon Sisters, Krishna Mothers and Rajneesh Lovers: Women’s Roles in New Religions (by Susan Jean Palmer)Craske, Jane Feminism and Christian Ethics (by Susan Frank Parsons)Linnane, Brian Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender (edited by Adrian Thatcher and Elizabeth Stuart)d’Ardenne, Patricia Men, Women, Passion and Power: Gender Issues in Psychotherapy (by Marie Maguire); Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader (edited by Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott)Creagh‐Fuller, Tomas Law and Family in Late Antiquity (by Judith Evans Grubbs)King, Nicholas Lydia’s Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity (by Luise Schottroff)Laird, Martin Collectanea Augustiniana. Augustine: Mystic and Mystagogue (edited by Frederick Van Fleteren, Joseph C. Schaubelt O.S.A. and Joseph Reino)Louth, Andrew The Martyrs of Córdoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion (Jessica A. Coope)Swanson, R. N. Peter des Roches: An Alien in English Politics, 1205–1238 (by Nicholas Vincent)Swanson, R. N. Runaway Religions in Medieval England c. 1240–1540 (by F. Donald Logan)Fox, Rory Aquinas and the Jews (by John Y. B. Hood)Hamilton, Alistair The Elect Nation: The Savonarolan Movement in Florence 1494–1545Hamilton, Alastair Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini, 1453–1524 (by K. J. P. Lowe)Swanson, R. N. The Cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, Part 2: Prima Camera Essex (edited by Michael Gervers)McCoog, Thomas M. The Jesuit Mystique (by Douglas Letson and Michael Higgins); The Jesuits: A Story of Power (by Alain Woodrow)Levi, Anthony Collected Works of Erasmus (University of Toronto Press – various volumes involving various translators, annotators and editors)McCoog, Thomas, M. Voracious Idols &amp; Violent Hands (by Lee Palmer Wandel)Ditchfield, Simon Right Thinking and Sacred Oratory in Counter‐Reformation Rome (by Frederick J. McGinness)Chibi, Andrew, A. Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought 1600–1640 (by Anthony Milton)Butler, Perry The Nineteenth‐Century Church and English Society (by Frances Knight)Aspinwall, Bernard The Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America (by Mary J. Oates)Kollar, RenéFaith and Family: The Life and Circle of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle (by Margaret Pawley)

The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Secunda Camera: Essex. Michael Gervers

<i>The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Secunda Camera: Essex</i>. Michael Gervers

The Cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England. Secunda camera. Essex. Edited by Michael Gervers. (Records of Social and Economic History, n.s. vi.) Pp. xxiii + 735 + plates. Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1982. £85.

The Cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England. Secunda camera. Essex. Edited by Michael Gervers. (Records of Social and Economic History, n.s. vi.) Pp. xxiii + 735 + plates. Oxford University Press (for The British Academy), 1982. £85.

The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England.

The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England.

The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England: Essex. Edited by Michael Gervers. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1982. LXXXVI, 735 S. = Records of Social and Economic History 6.

The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England: Essex. Edited by Michael Gervers. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1982. LXXXVI, 735 S. = Records of Social and Economic History 6.

Sir Robert Malory, Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (1432-1439/40.)

Whatever his personal failings and those of his Order, the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, more than any other man in England in the late Middle Ages, stood for the political standards that were most respected, if not most often acted upon, by his fellow-countrymen. He was also one of die great magnates of the kingdom, given power, money, and access to the king by his rich priory based at Clerkenwell, the five preceptories his office entitled him to, and his places in the upper house of parliament and die royal council. What use the priors made of their office and how they lived up to the ideals they were supposed to embody were, therefore, matters of consequence at the time. The surviving records, though not abundant, seem sufficient to provide partial answers to these questions for at least some priors; but no such attempt has yet been published.

An early cartulary fragment of the order of St. John of Jerusalem in England

An early cartulary fragment of the order of St. John of Jerusalem in England

A History of the Cartulary of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (British Museum Cotton ms, Nero E vi)

A History of the Cartulary of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (British Museum Cotton ms, Nero E vi)

Mr. B. H. Soulsby

MR. B. H. SOULSBY, who died at Reading on January 14, aged sixty-eight, was for nearly thirty-eight years in the service of the Trustees of the British Museum, first at Bloomsbury and later at South Kensington. He was educated at Cheltenham College and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also studied at G¶ttingen. He entered the service of the Trustees as a second-class assistant in the Department of Printed Books in 1892, and became successively superintendent of the Map Room, of the Copyright Office, and finally deputy superintendent of the Reading Room. During his time at Bloomsbury, he catalogued the library of the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and translated some early geographical works. In 1902 he published a small pamphlet on the earliest two maps which bear the name America.

GENERAL NURSING

Lady of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. Matron to the London Hospital

Book Review The Urethrotomies and Kidney Capsulotomy , in Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary Organs. By Reginald Harrison, F.R.C.S., Past Vice-President and Huntarian Professor of Pathology and Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons; Member of the Court and First Mitchell Banks Memorial Lecturer, University of Liverpool; Consulting Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, London; Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association;

Book Review The Urethrotomies and Kidney Capsulotomy , in Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary Organs. By Reginald Harrison, F.R.C.S., Past Vice-President and Huntarian Professor of Pathology and Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons; Member of the Court and First Mitchell Banks Memorial Lecturer, University of Liverpool; Consulting Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, London; Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association;

XV.—Garnier de Nablous, Prior of the Hospital in England, and Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

It is by the kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's that I exhibit the charter on the table. This document is a grant, by the Prior of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem in England and the Chapter, of the church of Broxbourne, Herts, to the Bishop of London for a yearly payment of four marcs.The charter is sealed, and it bears the date of 1190, a date which, as I shall explain, is of some historical consequence. Although calendared so far back as 1883 by my friend Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte in his valuable report on the muniments at St. Paul's, the charter seems to have been overlooked, for it was not found in that great repertory of all the charters of the Order, published by M. Delaville Le Roulx, although he endeavoured to include all those that are in England.