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The Winged Lion and the Eight-Pointed Cross Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the Mediterranean in Early Modern Times
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 and the history of the Crusades, as well as the history of Venice, Malta, and the Mediterranean in the early modern period.
I ‘Vol veder di aver Brandizo ovvero Malta’ : A Hospitaller Odyssey from Rhodes to Malta, 1523-1530
The 1522 Siege of Rhodes: Causes, Course, Consequences’, ed. Simon Phillips. Routledge, London, 2022
II The Birgu Phase of Hospitaller History
Birgu: A Maltese Maritime City, ed. L. Bugeja et al. Malta 1994
III Hospitaller Baroque Culture: The Order of St John’s Legacy to Early Modern Malta
The Military Orders, Volume 3: History and Heritage, ed. Victor Mallia-Milanes. Oxford, Ashgate, 2007
IV Society and the Economy on the Hospitaller Island of Malta: An Overview
Islands and Military Orders, c.1291- c.1798, ed. Emanuel Buttigieg & Simon Phillips . Surrey, Ashgate, 2013
V Malta and Venice in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Consular Relations
Studi Veneziani, xvii-xviii (1975)
VI The Hospitaller Receiver in Venice: A late seventeenth-century document
Studi Veneziani, n.s. xliv (2002), pp. 309-326.
VII Poised between hope and infinite despair: Venetians in the port of XVIIIth- century Malta
Méditerranée, Mer Ouverte: Actes du Colloque (Marseille, septembre 1995), vol. i: Du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, ed. Ch. Villain-Gandossi et al. Malta, 1997
VIII Property, piracy, and pugnacity: Reflections on Venice’s attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in Early Modern Times
The Military Orders Vol.VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Prosperity, ed. Nicholas Morton. London, Routledge, 2019
IX A Man with a Mission: A Venetian Hospitaller on Eighteenth-Century Malta
The Military Orders, Volume 4, On Land and by Sea, ed. Judi Upton Ward. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008
X Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and Fear of the Plague: Culturally Conflicting Views
The Military Orders, Volume 6.1: Culture and Conflict in the Mediterranean World, ed. J. Schenk & M. Carr. Oxon, Routledge, 2017
XI Towards the End of the Order of the Hospital: Reflections on the Views of Two Venetian Brethren, Antonio Miari and Ottavio Benvenuti
The Military Orders, Volume 5: Politics and Power, ed. Peter W. Edbury. Ashgate, 2012
XII A Living Force of Continuity in a Declining Mediterranean: The Hospitaller Order of St John in Early Modern Times
Mediterranean Identities: Environment, Society, Culture, ed. Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš. Croatia, Intech, 2017
XIII Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the Little Soldier from Ajaccio: A Semi- Autobiographical Rhapsody
Valletta: Malta’s Hospitaller City and Other Essays. Malta, Midsea Books, 2019
Biography
Victor Mallia-Milanes is Professor of History, former Head of the Department of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta. His special research interests include Venice, the Hospitaller Order of St John, Malta, and the Mediterranean in the early modern period, on which he has published extensively. His publications include Venice and Hospitaller Malta 1530–1798: Aspects of a Relationship; Hospitaller Malta 1530–1798; In the Service of the Venetian Republic; Lo Stato dell’Ordine di Malta, 1630; and Valletta: Malta’s Hospitaller City, and Other Essays.
