https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/26822 2026-07-15T17:40:26Z 2026-07-15T17:40:26Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/148081 2026-07-15T11:06:16Z 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Some comments on the text of the Bull Ioannes Episcopus Servus Servorum of 5 May 1319 in the context of the loss of the Holy Land Abstract: The Bull Ioannes Episcopus Servus Servorum of 5 May 1319 has often been interpreted as having separated the links between the Order of Saint Lazarus and the Latin Patriarchy. A careful analysis of the text of the Bull taken within the context of the political situation in the Outremer confirms that while the Order was being placed under the protection of the Holy See and exempt from all local and ecclesiastical authorities, the Patriarch of Jerusalem was allowed to retain his protectorship.

2019-10-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/148079 2026-07-15T10:58:09Z 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Leper’s plot of 1321 – evidence of a nation-wide leprosaria network in 14th century France Abstract: The turn of the fourteenth century was to find the rural population in France ready for a general uprising with a strong desire to set out on a crusade to fight the Moorish threat in the Iberian Peninsula. This uprising was to see a transference of attention towards the Jewish and leper communities in France and Aragon giving rise to the Shepherds’ Crusade and allegations of a nationwide Lepers’ Plot where allegedly leper and Jewish communities together with the Sultan of Granada had plotted to poison the wells of France and thus kill the healthy communities or infect them with leprosy. The following Inquisitional Trials suggest that the care of lepers in France was based on a nationwide coherent group of interrelated leprosaria falling under one central organization that adhered to a specific chain of command structure rather than to a system of isolated establishment run by local municipal or ecclesiastical authorities. It is therefore suggested from the evidence that the Lepers’ Plot was particularly attributed to the fratres Sancti Lazari who in 1265 had been made responsible for all leper-houses in Christian Europe by Pope Clement IV.

2019-10-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/148078 2026-07-15T10:54:12Z 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The 1418 statutes of the Order of the Knights of St Lazarus of Jerusalem for the houses in Gevenn and Sedorf Abstract: This paper gives a summary of the Statutes of the Houses of Gevenn and Sedorf within the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem published in Latin at Gfenn in 1418. Following a translation made by himself into English and summary of the same document, Chev. Prof. Horatio Vella will go through the contents, which vary from the conduct of the elections held by the Commendator, through legal procedures adopted in times of disagreements with the same Commendator, to all the obligations expected from the Commendator and the two Mistresses of the two mentioned Houses. The paper will highlight important and interesting points evident in this document and will also discuss the Latin used in it.

2019-10-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/148061 2026-07-15T07:48:31Z 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Rapport tas-segretarju għas sena 1948-49 Abstract: Dan ir-rapport annwali kien ġie ppreżentat mis-Segretarju Onorarju tal-Għaqda tal-Malti (Università), Wallace Gulia. Huwa jagħti ħarsa dettaljata lejn il-ħidma, il-laqgħat, id-dibattimenti kif ukoll l-attivitajiet kulturali u l-produzzjonijiet teatrali mill-Fergħa Drammatika tas-soċjetà matul is-sena akkademika 1948-49.

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