The winged lion and the eight-pointed cross : Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the Mediterranean in early modern times / Victor Mallia-Milanes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallia-Milanes, Victor, 1940- author.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS1116.

Variorum collected studies series ; CS1116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malta--History--1530-1798.

Malta.

Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.

Venice (Italy).

Malta--Foreign relations--Italy--Venice.

Venice (Italy)--Foreign relations--Malta.

Knights of Malta--History.

Knights of Malta.

Diplomatic relations.

Italy--Venice.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"The papers reprinted in this volume focus on the extraordinary and multifaceted relationship between two Christian States: the Republic of Venice and the Island Order State on Hospitaller Malta between 1530 and the late 1790s. It was marked by three distinct phenomena - military cooperation along with other western allies against the Ottoman Empire, direct mutual confrontation, at times even leading to war, and commercial cooperation. A fourth phenomenon, this time involving the wider Mediterranean context within which the two interacted, concerns the idea of decline. Some of the papers that follow question the validity of the traditional view that the Mediterranean and Venice were in decline by the sixteenth century, and that the Hospitaller Order, claimed to be in decline by the eighteenth, had given up Malta to the French as a result. This book will appeal to all those interested in Crusading Orders, the History of the Crusades, as well as the History of Venice, Malta, and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Age"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

'Vol veder di aver Brandizo ovvero Malta' : a Hospitaller odyssey from Rhodes to Malta, 1523-

The Birgu phase of Hospitaller history

Hospitaller baroque culture : the Order of St John's Legacy to early modern Malta

Society and the economy on the Hospitaller island of Malta : an overview

Malta and Venice in the eighteenth century : a study in consular relations

The Hospitaller receiver in Venice : a late seventeenth-century document

Poised between hope and infinite despair : Venetians in the port of XVIIIth-century Malta

Property, piracy, and pugnacity : reflections on Venice's attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in early modern times

A man with a mission : a Venetian Hospitaller on eighteenth-century Malta

Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and fear of the plague : culturally conflicting views

Towards the end of the Order of the Hospital : reflections on the views of two Venetian brethren, Antonio Miari and Ottavio Benvenuti

A living force of continuity in a declining Mediterranean : The Hospitaller Order of St John in early modern times

Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the little soldier from Ajaccio : a semi-autobiographical rhapsody.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mallia-Milanes, Victor, 1940- Winged lion and the eight-pointed cross

ISBN:

9781032070674

1032070676

9781032070681

1032070684

9781032524054

1032524057

9781032524061

1032524065

OCLC:

1380998108