Add to ORKGBetween 1530 and 1798, the Maltese islands were governed by the Order of St John the Baptist of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta. This military-religious organisation was made up of knights from the noble families of Europe who took religious vows; their mission statement was to care for the sick and fight the enemies of Christendom. This theocratic regime established the Magna Curia Castellaniae in September 1533 as a new tribunal, divided into two branches, a civil and a criminal one.peer-reviewe
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
Because infants are the most vulnerable members of a community, their deaths – and the resulting inf...
This paper will attempt to reconstruct the different identity kits of Spanish settlers in Malta bet...
In his description of Malta, Jean Quintin d'Autun observed that 'the people have a Sicilian characte...
Christianity was deeply rooted among the Maltese well before the advent of the Order of St John in 1...
This paper presents an overview of developments in the life of the village of Siggiewi - a typical M...
Until the advent of the Order of St John in 1530, Malta was considered as one of the many communes o...
This article addresses the Maltese traditional family, taking St. Mary's (Qrendi) as a test case. It...
Between the early sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries the Maltese islands were adminis...
The inception of the Hospitaller presence in Malta deeply transformed the character of the islands ...
Many historians consider the arrival in Malta of the Order of St John, in 1530, as the prelude to ma...
It was an unexceptional reality in Malta of the Hospitallers, for the bishops and the grandmasters t...
The presence of religion in Maltese society at the end of the millennium is not insignificant, but i...
What follows is an updated text of a paper in the same name which I had read at a seminar on 'Develo...
Consanguineous marriages may increase the risk of some medical conditions and may be useful to exami...
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
Because infants are the most vulnerable members of a community, their deaths – and the resulting inf...
This paper will attempt to reconstruct the different identity kits of Spanish settlers in Malta bet...
In his description of Malta, Jean Quintin d'Autun observed that 'the people have a Sicilian characte...
Christianity was deeply rooted among the Maltese well before the advent of the Order of St John in 1...
This paper presents an overview of developments in the life of the village of Siggiewi - a typical M...
Until the advent of the Order of St John in 1530, Malta was considered as one of the many communes o...
This article addresses the Maltese traditional family, taking St. Mary's (Qrendi) as a test case. It...
Between the early sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries the Maltese islands were adminis...
The inception of the Hospitaller presence in Malta deeply transformed the character of the islands ...
Many historians consider the arrival in Malta of the Order of St John, in 1530, as the prelude to ma...
It was an unexceptional reality in Malta of the Hospitallers, for the bishops and the grandmasters t...
The presence of religion in Maltese society at the end of the millennium is not insignificant, but i...
What follows is an updated text of a paper in the same name which I had read at a seminar on 'Develo...
Consanguineous marriages may increase the risk of some medical conditions and may be useful to exami...
In early modern Malta, as in the rest of Europe, there existed two major systems by which one could ...
Because infants are the most vulnerable members of a community, their deaths – and the resulting inf...
This paper will attempt to reconstruct the different identity kits of Spanish settlers in Malta bet...