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This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of co. Preface Although I have long thought of writing a book on the military orders, it is doubtful whether, without Maurice Keen's invitation to write such a volume, the project would in fact have been carried out.
I would therefore like to express my gratitude to hirn for providing the impetus, as weH as for valuable suggestions during the course of writing. In the first part of Chapter 2 and in the last part of Chapter 4 I have drawn on material which originaHy appeared in the Journal rif Ecclesiastical History and Viator; and elsewhere I have made briefer use of articles which were published in Speculum and Traditio.
I am grateful for the permission which has, where necessary, been gran ted for me to do this. I would also like to thank Vanessa Graham and Katherine Pym for the trouble they have taken in the production of the book.
My wife has provided assistance at aH stages, and my greatest debt is to her. Roche Rousse! ORCA x 1. Alcala Gi Ville! The size of contingents provided at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is not, of course, necessarily indicative of the number of troops supplied by military orders at earlier stages of the reconquest. It has been seen that in the master of Santiago feit capable of taking knights to Constantinople to assist Baldwin 11; but it was stipulated that the knights did not a11 have to be members of the order, and the Infante Alfonso sought to ensure that not more than fifty knightly brothers were sent.
