The Malta University Historical Society (MUHS)
MUHS Public Lecture and Launch of ‘Storja 2015’
Prof. Victor Mallia-Milanes
DECLINE AND FALL:
The Order of the Hospital and its surrender of Malta, 1798
Lecture synopsis:
The talk will deal with the decline theory, the fall of Hospitaller Malta in 1798, and the attribution of the surrender of the Order's island state to Hospitaller decline.
Speaker bio-note:Victor Mallia-Milanes is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Malta, where he is a former head of the History Department and dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has published extensively on the history of Venice, the Order of St John, and Malta in the early modern period. His most recent works include ‘Al Servizio della Repubblica di Venezia: Le Lettere di Massimiliano Buzzaccarini Gonzaga, Commendatore di Malta, inviate alla Magistratura dei Cinque Savii alla Mercanzia 1754-1776’, published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana in 2014. In 2016 the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta made him Commander 'Pro Merito Melitensi'.
Details:
Thursday 30 June 2016, 19:00
Floriana Local Council, 5 Pjazza Emmanuel S. Tonna, Floriana
(Please note that the lecture hall is located on the first floor and that there is no lift).
Just a few metres down from Sarria Church, across the Scouts Headquarters.
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Storja 2015 will be on sale at a special price before and after the lecture.
The lecture will be in English and attendance is free; no booking is required.
Light refreshments will follow.
Supported by:
Mrs Monique J. Grech – The Janatha Stubbs Trust – The Alfred Mizzi Foundation
Table of Content of ‘Storja 2015’
Preface: On Resuscitating a History Journal
Henry Frendo
Editorial
The Siege of Malta, 1565, Revisited
Victor Mallia-Milanes
The Ottomans in the Mediterranean in the Later Fifteenth Century: The Strategy of Mehmed II
Kate Fleet
‘Melita obsidione liberatur’: il Grande assedio attraverso le Cinquecentine
Federica Formiga
‘Lectum Coniugalem’: What the bed said about a marriage in the sixteenth century (c.1560-1580)
Iona Caruana
Gozo After the Siege of Malta: A Study of the Acts of Notary Tomaso Gauci, 1566-68
Mariana Grech
The Manoel Theatre Academy of Dramatic Art: 1977-1980
Stefan Aquilina
HMS Olympus: A Tale of Tragedy and Heroics
Timothy Gambin