This article analyses the Order’s architectural legacy in the European commandery system in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to the Priory of Pisa. Originally developed mainly from the necessity to give shelter to pilgrims visiting Jerusalem in the Middle Ages, the commanderies evolved into the primary financial resource in the Early Modern period for the construction and development of Valletta (Malta), and for maintaining political control in their other European possessions. As a mirror of this consolidated territorial solid network, the cabreo, or land survey, was the official document for territorial control and is today the witness of the Order’s vast land and urban heritage, including inventories of all properties across Europe. These records are essential not only to study the history of a place, but also to preserve the traces of a legacy that functioned as the strategic and powerful core of the knights’ territorial organisation. Using the cases of the Priory of Pisa, this article delves into the architectural languages contained in the land surveys and analyses how the local construction forms merged with the building tradition of the Order.

L’eredità architettonica dell’Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme attraverso il sistema commendatizio. Il Priorato di Pisa e la Lingua d’Italia / Burgassi, Valentina. - In: LEXICON. STORIE E ARCHITETTURA IN SICILIA. - ISSN 1827-3416. - ELETTRONICO. - Speciale Lexicon 5:(2024), pp. 205-214. [10.17401/lexicon.s.5-burgassi1]

L’eredità architettonica dell’Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme attraverso il sistema commendatizio. Il Priorato di Pisa e la Lingua d’Italia

Burgassi, Valentina
2024

Abstract

This article analyses the Order’s architectural legacy in the European commandery system in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to the Priory of Pisa. Originally developed mainly from the necessity to give shelter to pilgrims visiting Jerusalem in the Middle Ages, the commanderies evolved into the primary financial resource in the Early Modern period for the construction and development of Valletta (Malta), and for maintaining political control in their other European possessions. As a mirror of this consolidated territorial solid network, the cabreo, or land survey, was the official document for territorial control and is today the witness of the Order’s vast land and urban heritage, including inventories of all properties across Europe. These records are essential not only to study the history of a place, but also to preserve the traces of a legacy that functioned as the strategic and powerful core of the knights’ territorial organisation. Using the cases of the Priory of Pisa, this article delves into the architectural languages contained in the land surveys and analyses how the local construction forms merged with the building tradition of the Order.
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