A Medieval Case of Sexual Harassment
A look at a case of sexual harrassment from the 15th century.
Medieval News from Malta
The Government of Malta has recently announced the reopening of a major archive while restoration efforts start on two medieval sites.
A Land Inheritance Dispute in Gozo in 1485
‘You thief, you son of a thief. We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!’
Dread the Grim Reaper: Early Warning Strategies as a Means of Plague Prevention: Hospitaller Malta’s Fight Against Contagion
Plague, the grim reaper of preindustrial society, brought social disruption and physical devastation on such a scale as to warrant major literary attention both from contemporaries who witnessed the misery it perpetrated and by writers fortunate enough to live in centuries when this most fatal of epidemics was by and large only a distant memory
A Medieval Case of Sexual Harassment
‘I have loved you for so long, and I [still] love you; why do you not give your consent’ – these words, spoken inside a church, were at the centre of a case of sexual harassment from the summer of 1486.
De Valette’s Battlesword
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
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’
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
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
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
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