This Hospitaller sword is shrouded in mystery, but it is well known and it is, in any case, still in Malta.
Templars, Hospitallers, and 12th-Century Popes: The Maltese Evidence
March 21, 2015 By
To date, scholars have cataloged approximately 1,000 pre-1198 papal documents for Templars and Hospitallers, including deperdita (lost documents, inferred from other, still existing documents), as well as forgeries and falsifications.
‘Images of the Other: Venice’s Perception of the Knights of Malta’
August 15, 2012 By
The hostile perception which Venice generally entertained of the Knights Hospitallers on Rhodes and Malta was not an attitude which the Republic secretly assumed and secretly endeavoured with much effort to disguise.
The Great Siege of Malta
May 18, 2012 By
Tony Rothman recalls one of the turning points of early modern history, when a heroic defence prevented the rampant Ottoman forces from gaining a strategic foothold in the central Mediterranean.
The Science of Fortification in Malta in the Context of European Architectural Treatises and Military Academies
May 18, 2012 By
In order to understand why the fortifications of Malta evolved as they did, we need to study them in the context of the technical publications and military academies of the period.
The Treasure of the Knight Hospitallers in 1530: Reflections and Art Historical Considerations
May 18, 2012 By
In 1530 the crusading brotherhood of the Hospitaller Knights of St. John of Jerusalem accepted the offer of the Emperor Charles V to occupy the Maltese Islands and hold them against the Ottomans who were seeking to control the Central Mediterranean
From Jerusalem to Malta: the Hospital’s Character and Evolution
February 10, 2012 By
In 1113 Girardus secured an important papal privilege which recognized the Hospital’s independence; its members were considered to be in some sense technically religious and they were given the power to elect their own ruler.
Hospitaller activities in medieval Malta
November 24, 2010 By
Hospitaller activities in medieval Malta By Charles Savona-Ventura Malta Medical Journal Volume 19:3 (2007) Introduction: The Medieval Period in the Mediterranean World is generaly considered to cover a period of about a thousand years, and is considered to initiate with the end of the Roman era heralded by the division of the Roman Empure into […]
Malta, Sciacca and the Perollo family, 1461-1499
November 12, 2010 By
Malta, Sciacca and the Perollo family, 1461-1499 By Mark A. Aloisio Melita Historica : Journal of the Malta Historical Society, Vol.14: 2 (2005) Introduction: References to Sciacca in medieval Maltese sources have hitherto been rather fragmentary. It is known that a family from Sciacca, the Perollo, held a number of properties in Malta and was even […]
Satellite, Sentinel, Stepping Stone: Medieval Malta in Sicily’s Orbit
July 4, 2010 By
This essay reconstructs Malta’s ties to Sicily mainly in terms of the surviving primary documents from the period
A Pilgrimage of Faith, War, and Charity. The Order of the Hospital from Jerusalem to Malta
January 3, 2009 By
A Pilgrimage of Faith, War, and Charity: The Order of the Hospital from Jerusalem to Malta By Victor Mallia-Milanes Religion, Ritual and Mythology Aspects of Identity Formation in Europe, edited by Joaquim Carvalho (Pisa University Press, 2006) Introduction: The Hospitaller Order of St John, whose origins are traced back to the years before the First Crusade, began as […]
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