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'A remarkable achievement! Andrew Jotischky and the late Bernard Hamilton break new ground in this comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of Latin and Greek monasticism. An important contribution to the history of both the Latin and East and the wider world of medieval monastic endeavours.' Peter Edbury, University of Cardiff 'A staggering achievement and a must read for any scholar or student interested in the monastic tradition, comparative religious practice, and spiritual life and patronage in the Crusader States. The combined erudition of Hamilton and Jotischky offers a magnificent analysis of Greek and Latin monastic life steeped in detail and encyclopedic in its range.' Anne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins University 'In a bravura sustained performance of meticulous detailed scholarship, the authors provide a wonderfully encyclopaedic panorama of the inspirations, organisation, personalities and cultures that sustained Latin and Greek monasticism in and around the Crusader States. Alongside a limpid synthesis of existing learning, by placing the two Christian traditions side by side, it offers fresh insights into the practical realities of religious lives, exposing both the diversity and often unexpected ecumenism of shared beliefs within a multi-faith, polyglot cosmopolitan religious world. It will be a benchmark and reference point for scholars and students alike, a fitting envoi from its co-author, the late Bernard Hamilton.' Christopher Tyerman, Hertford College, University of Oxford 'A remarkable achievement! Andrew Jotischky and the late Bernard Hamilton break new ground in this comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of Latin and Greek monasticism. An important contribution to the history of both the Latin and East and the wider world of medieval monastic endeavours.' Peter Edbury, University of Cardiff 'A staggering achievement and a must read for any scholar or student interested in the monastic tradition, comparative religious practice, and spiritual life and patronage in the Crusader States. The combined erudition of Hamilton and Jotischky offers a magnificent analysis of Greek and Latin monastic life steeped in detail and encyclopedic in its range.' Anne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins University 'In a bravura sustained performance of meticulous detailed scholarship, the authors provide a wonderfully encyclopaedic panorama of the inspirations, organisation, personalities and cultures that sustained Latin and Greek monasticism in and around the Crusader States. Alongside a limpid synthesis of existing learning, by placing the two Christian traditions side by side, it offers fresh insights into the practical realities of religious lives, exposing both the diversity and often unexpected ecumenism of shared beliefs within a multi-faith, polyglot cosmopolitan religious world. It will be a benchmark and reference point for scholars and students alike, a fitting envoi from its co-author, the late Bernard Hamilton.' Christopher Tyerman, Hertford College, University of Oxford

'A remarkable achievement! Andrew Jotischky and the late Bernard Hamilton break new ground in this comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of Latin and Greek monasticism. An important contribution to the history of both the Latin and East and the wider world of medieval monastic endeavours.' Peter Edbury, University of Cardiff 'A staggering achievement and a must read for any scholar or student interested in the monastic tradition, comparative religious practice, and spiritual life and patronage in the Crusader States. The combined erudition of Hamilton and Jotischky offers a magnificent analysis of Greek and Latin monastic life steeped in detail and encyclopedic in its range.' Anne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins University 'In a bravura sustained performance of meticulous detailed scholarship, the authors provide a wonderfully encyclopaedic panorama of the inspirations, organisation, personalities and cultures that sustained Latin and Greek monasticism in and around the Crusader States. Alongside a limpid synthesis of existing learning, by placing the two Christian traditions side by side, it offers fresh insights into the practical realities of religious lives, exposing both the diversity and often unexpected ecumenism of shared beliefs within a multi-faith, polyglot cosmopolitan religious world. It will be a benchmark and reference point for scholars and students alike, a fitting envoi from its co-author, the late Bernard Hamilton.' Christopher Tyerman, Hertford College, University of Oxford

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Bernard Hamilton (1932-2019) was Professor of Crusading History at the University of Nottingham. His numerous publications include The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (2000), Religion in the Medieval West (2003) and The Christian World of the Middle Ages (2013). Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of Crusading and the Crusader States (2nd Edition, 2017), The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (2002), The Perfection of Solitude: Hermits and Months in the Crusader States (1995) as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals.

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