David Marcombe.

David Marcombe, Leper Knights: The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c 1150-1544 Rochester, N Y: The Boydell Pres 2003 Pp xx 320 $7500 ISBN 0-85115-893-5

The Order of St Lazarus is individual of the less well known (and les well documented) military orders established in the spiritual Land after the region's rout in the Crusades. Initially its defining characteristic was that the knights were themselves leper After the fall of Acre in 1291 the Order's base and focus mov west, its links with leprosy becoming increasingly tenuous. It survived at least

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