Professor Helen Nicholson (University of Cardiff) is an internationally renowned authority on the history of the Order.  Helen will focus on two particular sources: the report produced by Grand Prior Philip de Thame on papal instructions in 1338 and sent to Grand Master Hélion de Villeneuve on Rhodes, and Brother John Stillingflete’s list of properties and patrons from 1434. The talk will be about what these records tell us about the Hospitallers’ relations with their patrons and their spiritual and charitable contribution to medieval society.

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