Medievalists.net » Malta http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 De Valette’s Battlesword http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/01/de-valettes-battlesword/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/01/de-valettes-battlesword/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:31:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57318 This Hospitaller sword is shrouded in mystery, but it is well known and it is, in any case, still in Malta.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/01/de-valettes-battlesword/feed/ 0 Templars, Hospitallers, and 12th-Century Popes: The Maltese Evidence http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/21/templars-hospitallers-and-12th-century-popes-the-maltese-evidence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/21/templars-hospitallers-and-12th-century-popes-the-maltese-evidence/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:23:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56995 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/21/templars-hospitallers-and-12th-century-popes-the-maltese-evidence/feed/ 0 ‘Images of the Other: Venice’s Perception of the Knights of Malta’ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/15/images-of-the-other-venices-perception-of-the-knights-of-malta/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/15/images-of-the-other-venices-perception-of-the-knights-of-malta/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:15:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34809 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/15/images-of-the-other-venices-perception-of-the-knights-of-malta/feed/ 0 The Great Siege of Malta http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-great-siege-of-malta/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-great-siege-of-malta/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 23:21:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31928 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-great-siege-of-malta/feed/ 0 The Science of Fortification in Malta in the Context of European Architectural Treatises and Military Academies http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-science-of-fortification-in-malta-in-the-context-of-european-architectural-treatises-and-military-academies/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-science-of-fortification-in-malta-in-the-context-of-european-architectural-treatises-and-military-academies/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 23:06:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31920 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-science-of-fortification-in-malta-in-the-context-of-european-architectural-treatises-and-military-academies/feed/ 0 The Treasure of the Knight Hospitallers in 1530: Reflections and Art Historical Considerations http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-treasure-of-the-knight-hospitallers-in-1530-reflections-and-art-historical-considerations/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-treasure-of-the-knight-hospitallers-in-1530-reflections-and-art-historical-considerations/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 22:54:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31916 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

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/18/the-treasure-of-the-knight-hospitallers-in-1530-reflections-and-art-historical-considerations/feed/ 0 From Jerusalem to Malta: the Hospital’s Character and Evolution http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/10/from-jerusalem-to-malta-the-hospitals-character-and-evolution/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/10/from-jerusalem-to-malta-the-hospitals-character-and-evolution/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:55:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29177 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/10/from-jerusalem-to-malta-the-hospitals-character-and-evolution/feed/ 0 Hospitaller activities in medieval Malta http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/24/hospitaller-activities-in-medieval-malta/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/24/hospitaller-activities-in-medieval-malta/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:28:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12910 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/24/hospitaller-activities-in-medieval-malta/feed/ 0 Malta, Sciacca and the Perollo family, 1461-1499 http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/12/malta-sciacca-and-the-perollo-family-1461-1499/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/12/malta-sciacca-and-the-perollo-family-1461-1499/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:18:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12367 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/12/malta-sciacca-and-the-perollo-family-1461-1499/feed/ 0 Satellite, Sentinel, Stepping Stone: Medieval Malta in Sicily’s Orbit http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/04/satellite-sentinel-stepping-stone-medieval-malta-in-sicilys-orbit/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/07/04/satellite-sentinel-stepping-stone-medieval-malta-in-sicilys-orbit/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:47:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=8865 This essay reconstructs Malta’s ties to Sicily mainly in terms of the surviving primary documents from the period

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