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The Winged Lion and the Eight-Pointed Cross

The Winged Lion and the Eight-Pointed Cross
Author: Victor Mallia-Milanes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000936287

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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.


The Dorothy Dunnett Companion

The Dorothy Dunnett Companion
Author: Elspeth Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2001-07-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0375725873

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Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolò series. Elspeth Morrison has re-created the author’s exhaustive original research, documenting her myriad sources and literary references. Foreign phrases are translated; poems and quotations presented in full; historical figures and events fleshed out; subtle allusions–and there are many–noted. From the origins of the Arabic drink qahveh to a recipe for quince paste, from the medical uses of ants and alum, to Zacco, Zenobia, and Zoroaster, this easy-to-use A-to-Z reference richly illuminates the intricacies of the complex and far-flung Renaissance world Dorothy Dunnett’s creations so colorfully inhabit.


Dungeon, Fire and Sword

Dungeon, Fire and Sword
Author: John J. Robinson
Publisher: M. Evans
Total Pages: 513
Release: 1992-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1590771524

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Dungeon, Fire and Sword is a good book for all who enjoy a well-written, well-researched story of stupidity, greed, barbarity, unspeakable cruelty, deception, fraud, treachery and sanctimony... John J. Robinson has written a fascinating history of an incredible time.


The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces, 1306-1462

The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces, 1306-1462
Author: Anthony Luttrell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040233147

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This fourth collection of Dr Luttrell’s studies on the military order of the Hospital concerns its activities on the island of Rhodes, acquired between 1306 and 1310, where it struggled to contain the naval aggression of the Anatolian Turks and to settle the island and organise its society and economy. At the same time it had to exploit its Cypriot possessions and its European provinces in order to secure the manpower and resources needed to sustain its Eastern activities. The author has spent over 40 years working in the Hospital’s archives on Malta and elsewhere throughout the West, studying the Hospitallers’ military and naval affairs, their spiritual and medical activities, and the organisation of their Western priories and commanderies. These studies illustrate the workings of an extensive multi-national corporation dedicated to the defence of Christendom.


Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry And Its Kindred Sciences, Volume 3: M-R

Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry And Its Kindred Sciences, Volume 3: M-R
Author: Albert G. Mackey
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 437
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3849688011

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Dr. Albert G. Mackey appears as author of this " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences," which, being a library in inself, superseded most of the Masonic works which have been tolerated by the craft — chiefly because none better could be obtained. Here is a work which fulfils the hope which sustained the author through ten years' literary labor, that, under one cover he "would furnish every Mason who might consult its pages the means of acquiring a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his order." Up to the present time the modern literature of Freemasonry has been diffuse, lumbering, unreliable, and, out of all reasonable proportions. There is, in Mackey's "Encyclopaedia of Masonry," well digested, well arranged, and confined within reasonable limits, all that a Mason can desire to find in a book exclusively devoted to the history, the arts, science, and literature of Masonry. This is volume three out of four and covering the letters M to R.


The Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

The Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Ray Gatt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2024-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040037011

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This book details the origin of the Grand Hospitaller Priory of Messina. It discusses a breadth of themes, such as the historiography, the Hospitaller’s European commandery and Sicilian patrimony, its management and organization in the seventeenth century, its religious practices, and the prioral mansion in Messina. The final chapter includes a detailed account of the 1674 Messina insurrection against the Spanish overlords. This event plunged the priory into political chaos, fracturing it and pitting members against each other. It also shattered neutrality issues embedded in the statutes of the religion and ignoring the precepts emanating from the Convent on Malta. The Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the Crusading Orders, the history of the Knights Hospitaller, and the history of Malta.