Anthony Luttrell

Anthony Thornton Luttrell was born in October 1932. After graduating from Bryanston School in Dorset in 1951, Luttrell began his studies at Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated in 1954, spending his final year as a De Osma Student at the Instituto Valencia of Don Juan in Madrid. In 1955, he entered the Colegio Mayor Ximénez de Cisneros at Madrid University, then pursued further studies from 1956 to 1958 at the British School at Rome, a British interdisciplinary research centre, as the Rome Scholar in Medieval studies. In 1959, he completed his studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the University of Pisa, receiving his MA and D.Phil. from Oxford in the same year. == Career ==

From 1960 to 1962, Luttrell taught at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, United States. In 1963, he joined the Department of History at the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer, a position he held for four years. Between 1967 and 1973, he served as assistant director and librarian of the British School at Rome, before joining the Department of History at the Royal University of Malta from 1973 to 1976. In 1977–1978, Luttrell was a visiting fellow at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. He then conducted research at the (IRHT) within the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris before returning to the University of Malta as a lecturer from 1979 to 1980. Luttrell's research on the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Rhodes and Malta integrated archival investigation with archaeological studies during the 1970s and 1980s, providing insight into Malta's early and medieval history. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 250 works, including a six-volume collected study published by Routledge. Widely regarded as the foremost historian of the Hospitallers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, his notable contributions include Studies on the Hospitallers after 1306: Rhodes and the West (2007), The Town of Rhodes 1306–1356 (2003) and Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages, co-authored with Medieval historian Helen J. Nicholson (2006). == Recognition and legacy ==

Luttrell has received several academic honours for his contributions to medieval history. In 1999–2000, he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his scholarly achievements. In 2012, he received the Prix Gustave Schlumberger from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for his work on the history of the Knights Hospitaller. Luttrell's research has been recognised as central to the study of the Hospitallers in the late medieval Mediterranean, with reviewers highlighting his extensive use of archival sources and his lasting influence on crusader historiography. == Works ==

A selection of publications by Anthony Luttrell Monographs • Medieval Malta: Studies on Malta Before the Knights, ed. A. Luttrell (London, 1975) • Ħal Millieri: A Maltese Casale, its Churches and Paintings, ed. A. Luttrell (Malta, 1976) • The Hospitallers in Cyprus, Rhodes, Greece and the West, 1291–1440: Collected Studies (London, 1978) • Gozo Citadel, Malta: Report Submitted to the Division of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO (typescript: Malta, 1981) • Latin Greece, the Hospitallers and the Crusades, 1291–1440: Collected Studies (London, 1982) • The Later History of the Maussolleion and its Use in the Hospitaller Castle at Bodrum = The Maussolleion at Halikarnassos: Reports of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum, 2 – The Written Sources and their Archaeological Background: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, 15 part 2 (Aarhus, 1986) • with T. Blagg and A. Bonanno, Excavations at Ħal Millieri, Malta (Malta, 1991), pp. 152 • The Hospitallers of Rhodes and their Mediterranean World: Collected Studies (London, 1992) • with T. Blagg, Le palais papal et autres bâtiments du XIVe siècle à Sorgues (Sorgues, 1998), pp. 139. • The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces: 1306–1462 (Aldershot, 1999) • The Making of Christian Malta: From the Early Middle Ages to 1530 (Aldershot, 2002) • ''La commanderie: institution des ordres militaires dans l'occident médiéval'', ed. A. Luttrell and L. Pressouyre (Paris, 2002), pp. 361. • The Town of Rhodes: 1306–1356 (Rhodes, 2003). • Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages, ed. A. Luttrell and H. Nicholson (Aldershot, 2006) • Studies on the Hospitallers after 1306: Rhodes and the West (Aldershot, 2007) == References ==