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Author: Matthias Ebejer

Jerusalem in Spirit: The Hospitallers and the Sacred Geography of Exile

Matthias Ebejer (Archdiocese of Malta, Valletta) doi: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00038435 The Order of St John of Jerusalem carried the spiritual and symbolic weight of the Holy City in its very name. Following their expulsion from the Holy Land in 1291, the Order redefined what it meant to be ‘of Jerusalem’. No longer…