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Author: Kilin
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789990993059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe small churches of the Maltese Islands, which are such an essential feature of their urban and rural topography has stimulated greater interest in their preservation and continued existence.
Author: Uwe Jens Rudolf
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-04-27
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0810873907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Malta compiles the unusually rich and long history of the islands comprising the country of Malta. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-reference dictionary entries describing all of the major places, persons, institutions, and events that have shaped the history of the archipelago.
Author: Juliet Rix
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1841624527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMalta has long been known for package holidays but this island nation has 7,000 years of fascinating and visible history. Updated throughout, this new edition delves into Malta's temples and archaeology more comprehensively than any other guidebook. Packed with historical and archaeological facts it also showcases bird-watching and wildlife opportunities, summer festas, and the less commercialised islands of Gozo and Comino. With new hotels opening in Birgu and across the islands the guide includes greater coverage of accommodation and restaurants. There is more to the island than sun and sea and this guide will help readers to discover the Malta beyond the tourist resorts.
Author: Juliet Rix
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2019-03-25
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1784770701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Bradt's Malta - written by an expert who has been visiting for more than a decade - remains the most comprehensive guide available and has built a reputation for being the essential guide for getting beneath the surface of this island nation and discovering what lies beyond the beaches. Sun, sand and sea there may be, but Malta boasts so much more, and this new edition is packed with historical and archaeological insights, from the Stone Age to the Romans, the Knights Hospitaller to World War II. It also showcases the islands' wildlife and bird-watching opportunities, summer festas, and the less commercialised islands of Gozo and Comino. Malta has been changing at the rate of knots, with Valletta's year as European Capital of Culture accelerating restoration and renovation. Copious openings - of historic sights, key fortresses, a new national gallery and boutique accommodation, particularly in Valletta - are covered, while the culinary scene continues to thrive, with notably greater choice for vegetarians and vegans. Malta has recently become much more socially accepting and is now considered one of the top places for LGBT travellers, while the offering for younger travellers has expanded, too. The Isle of MTV festival is going strong, Annie Mac now has a spring festival in Malta and a host of bars and clubs has sprung up. There is also lots on offer culturally, with festivals, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and opera all contributing to a full programme. Bradt's Malta contains all the information needed for a successful trip. Whatever your budget, it is the ideal guide for everyone from culture aficionados to history and archaeology buffs, foodies, war veterans, families and couples escaping for a romantic break.
Author: George A. Said-Zammit
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2016-08-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1784913928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study traces and analyses the evolution of domestic space in Maltese vernacular and ‘polite’ houses from medieval to contemporary times.
Author: Nicholas Morton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-05
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1351020404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Military Orders essay collections arising from the quadrennial conferences held at Clerkenwell in London have come to represent an international point of reference for scholars. This present volume brings together twenty-nine papers given at the seventh iteration of this event. The studies offered here cover regions as disparate as Prussia, Iberia and the Eastern Mediterranean and chronologically span topics from the Twelfth to the Twentieth century. They draw attention to little used textual and non-textual sources, advance challenging new methodologies, and help to place these military-religious institutions in a broader context.
Author: George A. Said-Zammit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1000289826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHouses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta is a study concerned with a wide spectrum of early modern dwellings in Malta, ranging from palazzi and affluent residences to peasant dwellings, troglodyte houses, and hovels. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book allows houses and domestic networks to be studied not only in terms of architecture and construction materials, but also as places of human habitation where house dwellers act, react and interact in different contexts and circumstances. Dwellings are places that permit different social and economic activities, whilst providing shelter and security to the household members. Through the available sources, the houses of Hospitaller Malta are analysed in terms of their spatial properties and how they generate privacy, interaction and communication, identity, accessibility, security, visibility, movement and encounters, and, equally important, how domestic space relates to gender roles, status, and class. This work, therefore, seeks to reach a deep and nuanced understanding of domestic space and how it relates to the islands’ history and the development of their society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author: Ann Brysbaert
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2002 Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology brought together a number of postgraduate students researching a broad range of topics on the archaeology of the Mediterranean area from prehistory to the modern period. This volume presents twenty contributions from the workshop which was held at Glasgow University.
Author: H. J. A. Sire
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780300068856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
