| CODE | HST5054 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Medical, Naval and Military History of the Order of St. John | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit is divided into three sectors, each covering an important function of the Order. The Medical Tradition. The aim of this sector is to study the charitable and medical activities of the Order of St John as defined in its twelfth-century Rule and as they evolved over the centuries to reflect the particular needs of the time. This amounts to a study of the Hospitaller ideal into which ‘the crusading and chivalric ethos’ had been ‘fully integrated’. The Naval History. This part will seek to understand the Order’s development as a small but very efficient naval power in response to the place it occupied and the roles it played within the wider context of ever-changing Mediterranean geopolitics. The Military History. This sector will trace the history of Hospitaller military architecture and the role the Order played in European and Mediterranean wars. Intended Learning Outcomes: By the end of the study-unit, candidates will have acquired an ability (a) to demonstrate ample knowledge of library and archival resources on each of the three major themes of this study-unit in Malta and elsewhere in Europe and how to use them; (b) to critically evaluate evidence and its interpretation; (c) to seek to analyse and understand differing interpretations; and (c) to compare and contrast theoretical explanations. Reading List: Medical Tradition Peter Elmer (ed.), The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800 (Manchester, UP, 2004). John Henderson, The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (London, Yale UP, 2006). E.E. Hume, The Medical Work of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem (1940). Paul Cassar, A Medical History of Malta (London 1965). Several recent contributions on the subject published in Ashgate’s series of four volumes on The Military Orders, cited in HST 5051. Naval History General Works of Reference: Giacomo Bosio, Dell’Istoria della S. Religione et Ill.ma Militia di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano: vols. i, ii, and iii. Bartholomeo Dal Pozzo, Historia della Sacra Religione Militare di S. Giovanni Gerosolimitano detta di Malta: vols. i and ii (Verona 1703-15). Ettore Rossi, Storia della marina dell’Ordine di S. Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta (Rome-Milan 1926). Ubaldino Mori Ubaldini, La Marina del Sovrano Militare Ordine di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta (Rome 1971). Military History On the military revolution: Piero Del Negro, Guerra ed eserciti da Machiavelli a Napoleone (Rome-Bari 2001); Nicola Labanca (ed.), L’istituzione militare in Italia. Politica e Società (Milan 2002); Geoffrey Parker, The military revolution: Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800 (Cambridge 1988). On Hospitaller fortifications: Stephen Spiteri, Fortresses of the Cross: Hospitaller Military Architecture (1136-1798) (Malta 1994). On the sieges of 1480, 1522, and 1565: Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant 1204-1571, 4 vols. (Philadelphia 1976-1984), especially ii, 346-63; iii, 203-16; and iv, 853-81. On corsairing: Peter Earle, Corsairs of Malta and Barbary (London 1970). Victor Mallia-Milanes, Venice and Hospitaller Malta, 1530-1798: Aspects of a Relationship (Malta 1992). Victor Mallia-Milanes, In the Service of the Venetian Republic (Malta, PEG, 2008). Salvatore Bono, Corsari nel Mediterraneo: Cristiani e Musulmani fra Guerra, Schiavitù e Commercio (Milan 1993). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Emanuel Buttigieg Joseph Grima Victor Mallia Milanes Stephen Spiteri |
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