1st Edition
The Making of Christian Malta From the Early Middle Ages to 1530
By Anthony Luttrell
Copyright 2002
352 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2002: Dr Luttrell's work has helped change our understanding of the history of the small islands of Malta and Gozo, providing a more coherent story of the ways in which, during the Middle Ages, a small isolated Muslim community was converted into a more prosperous outpost of Roman Christianity with a unique cultural mixture of Arabic speech and European... Read more
Contents: Preface; Medieval Malta: approaches and reproaches; Approaches to medieval Malta; Malta before 870: some Libyan connections; The Christianization of Malta; Slaves and captives on Malta: 1053/4 and 1091; Mdina hoard of Muslim coins: 1698; L’effritement de l’Islam: 1091-1282; Frederick II and Paolino de Malta: 1235; Giliberto Abbate’s report on Malta: ca. 1241; Malta e Gozo: 1222-1268; Christian slaves at Malta: 1271; The earliest documents transcribed in the Cathedral Archives, Mdina: 1316-1372; The sale of Gumerin on Malta: 1318; The administration of Gozo: 1335; The Benedictines and Malta: 1363-1371; The Augustinians at Malta: 1413; The Cappella of Birkirkara: 1402; Le origini della parrocchia a Malta; The roots of medieval Gozo; An introduction to Hal Millieri; Hal Millieri: historical and architectural postscript; Index.
Biography
Anthony Luttrell
'Few British libraries keep the journals and periodicals that contain the most informative debates on the history of medieval Malta [...] so it is particularly useful to have Luttrell's most important studies of them [...] reproduced in this convenient and accessible form.' Journal of Islamic Studies
