Author : H. J. A. Sire
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300068856
This is a complete history of the Order of St John or Knights of Malta. Founded as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the Order has in succeeding centuries played an important military, religious and political role in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Author : Maurus Fitzgerald
Publisher : Catholic Book Publishing Corporation
Page : pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781941243510
Author : Joseph Attard
Publisher : Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9789990900194
Author : Thomas Freller
Publisher :
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Malta
ISBN : 9789993272977
The urban, cultural and political profile of the Maltese islands is deeply marked by the presence for 268 years of the Knights of St John. The Order has left its mark decisively in the collective memory of the Maltese. Malta: The Order of St John gives a global picture of this multinational institution in those crucial years when Grand Master L'Isle Adam moved the convent from Rhodes to Malta, when legendary Grand Master Valette withstood the Turkish assault in 1565, when Grand Masters Wignacourt, Cotoner and Carafa turned Malta into a centre of Mediterraean corsairing and Grand Masters Vilhena and Pinto tried to imitate the Central European absolutist princes. It all came to a sudden - but not unexpected - end in 1798 when Grand Master Hompesch handed over Malta to the rising star on the European horizon, Napoleon. The various diplomatic attempts of the knights to regain their island all failed. The book also provides the reader with an overview of the most important monuments connected with the knights on Malta and Gozo.
Author : U S Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781574553949
In this timely work, the bishops open a new dialogue on crime and justice in the United States.
Author : Simon Mercieca
Publisher : Bonechi
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788847614635
Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1497625807
An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights Hospitaller of Saint John dedicated themselves to defending the poor and sick. First formed in Jerusalem during the Crusades of the eleventh century, the Order of Saint John grew in wealth and power rivaled only by the Knights Templar. They survived exile from the Holy Land, settling first in Rhodes and then in Malta, which they famously defended against the Ottoman Empire’s epic invasion of 1565. Even after losing Malta to Napoleon Bonaparte two centuries later, the Order of Saint John continued its mission. Ernle Bradford, whose bestselling book The Great Siege recounts their historic battle for Malta, follows the Knights of Saint John through centuries of war, politics, rivalry, and perseverance in The Shield and the Sword.
Author : John Darmanin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780646987996
This book lists all the coins minted by the Kights of Malta during their stay in Malta between 1530 - 1798. It lists all known varieties and lists the quantity known in museums and in private collections.
Author : Fra John Critien
Publisher : Midsea Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Malta
ISBN : 9789993270676
This book presents for the first time the whole collection of the Cronologia Dei Gran Maestri Dello Spedale Della Sacra Religione Militare Di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano E Dell' Ordine Del Santo Sepolcro Oggi Detti Di Malta (Chronology of the Grand Masters of the Hospital of the Sacred Military Religion of St John of Jerusalem and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre now known as the Order of Malta). The collection consists of two series of engraved portraits of the Grand Masters. The first series starts with the founder of the Order, Fr. Gerard - 1st Rector of the Hospital of Jerusalem (c.1099) and ends with Fr. Emmanuel de Rohan - 69th Grand Master of the Order (1775). The second series starts with Fr. Ferdinand von Hompesch - 71st Grand Master of the Order (1797), and ends with Fr. Angelo de Mojana di Cologna - 77th Grand Master of the Order (1962).
Author : Helen J. Nicholson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851158457
This short study of the history of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta, also known as the Knights Hospitaller, is intended as an introduction to the Order for academics working in other fields, as well as the interested general reader. Beginning with a consideration of the origins of the Order as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the eleventh century, it traces the Hospitaller's development into a military order during the first part of the 12th century, and its military activities on the frontiers of Christendom in the eastern Mediterranean, Spain and eastern Europe during the middle ages and into early modern period: its role in crusades and in wars against non-Christians on land and at sea, as well as its role in building and maintaining fortresses.
