What is it about?

An exploration of the Order of St Lazarus' Scottish properties and their history in the kingdom from the twelfth to mid-fourteenth centuries.

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Why is it important?

This is the first dedicated study of the Order's Scottish history, revealing an largely unknown branch of an international military-religious order. The Lazarites' expulsion from Scotland by David II helps illustrate the difficulties of conflicting national loyalties that were often faced by such orders.

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This page is a summary of: The Leper and the Lion: The Order of St Lazarus in Scotland, The Scottish Historical Review, October 2017, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/shr.2017.0337.
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