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Off the Shelves at St John's Gate

Off the Shelves at St John's Gate

Von: Stephen Mossman
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Join our hosts to explore the history of the Order of St John - the Knights Hospitaller - in its heyday, when it was headquartered on Rhodes and Malta, and its great priory in London, which now houses the Museum of the Order of St John, was built. In each episode we take an item off the shelves from the Museum's historic library collection in the West Tower of St John’s Gate, and explore different aspects of the Hospitallers' history that it leads us to investigate.

We’ll be taking a closer look at subjects ranging from indulgences, to pilgrimage, charitable donation and care for the sick – the hospitals for which the Order has been rightly famed from its inception to its present incarnation as St John Ambulance. If you are now wondering what an indulgence actually is, what the real purpose of pilgrimage was, or even what the medieval equivalent of a food bank looked like, we’ll be answering these questions and more besides!

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  • New Discoveries and Hot Topics: Your Questions Answered!

    New Discoveries and Hot Topics: Your Questions Answered!
    Mar 14 2025

    In a new episode Stephen Mossman and Simone Monti answer the questions that listeners have sent in after the first series of Off the Shelves at St John’s Gate, and reveal exciting discoveries made in the Museum’s historic library over the past year. We take questions about devotional life, the Order’s history in England, and the role of women as owners and producers of texts and books across the ages.


    You can explore the library for yourselves here: https://museumstjohn.org.uk/research/the-library-of-the-museum-of-the-order-of-st-john/
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    31 Min.
  • Ritual

    Ritual
    Jun 24 2024

    A short look at four items off the library’s shelves that illuminate the liturgical ritual of the Hospitaller brethren: the songs they sang, the texts they chanted, and the processions they led.
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    7 Min.
  • The Chancellor

    The Chancellor
    Jun 24 2024

    A short look at some of the works in the Library from the pen of the Order’s outstanding literary figure: its vice-chancellor Guillaume Caoursin, the great propagandist of the Rhodiot cause in the late fifteenth century.
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    6 Min.
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