OAR@UM Collection:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/384132024-03-28T20:54:45Z2024-03-28T20:54:45ZL' estetica e la rappresentazione del potere : il 'Barocco trionfante' nella decorazione navale, emblema dell'autorita assolutista, esibizione delle armi e della gloria del SovranoFrasca, Francescohttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/217472017-09-15T01:25:43Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: L' estetica e la rappresentazione del potere : il 'Barocco trionfante' nella decorazione navale, emblema dell'autorita assolutista, esibizione delle armi e della gloria del Sovrano
Authors: Frasca, Francesco
Abstract: Before 1600, ships were barely decorated, however this changed because ships were playing an important role in the expansion of the known world. Cargo ships were becoming battle ships and thus they started to become more decorated. This decoration included painting and sculpture, but unfortunately it was not considered as an art form and rarely documented. This article describes the methods and decoration of ships during the Baroque period, and how these decorations served to represent the power and prestige of their owner.2014-01-01T00:00:00Z'Lift up your heart' : the poem Sursum corda by Margaretha Susanne von Kuntsch Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens (Lamentations 3:41)McDonald, William C.https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/217312017-09-15T01:25:45Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: 'Lift up your heart' : the poem Sursum corda by Margaretha Susanne von Kuntsch Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens (Lamentations 3:41)
Authors: McDonald, William C.
Abstract: Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch (1651-1717) was a well-read,
pious, Protestant author who blended a strong religious faith with a neoStoic
philosophy in her writings, which encompass lyric poems and
an operetta. She is a seriously under-appreciated writer whose work
is rarely assessed from an aesthetic standpoint.
Elke O. Hedstrom claims that Sursum
corda, the poem with which the present essay is concerned, expresses
a world-negating attitude, employing typical, antithetical statements,
as well as images of vanitas.2014-01-01T00:00:00Z[Book Review] Malta Historical Society Proceedings of History Week 2011Martin, Gillian M.https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/217302017-09-15T01:25:37Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: [Book Review] Malta Historical Society Proceedings of History Week 2011
Authors: Martin, Gillian M.
Abstract: Book Review for Malta Historical Society Proceedings of History Week 2011. By Joan
Abela, Emanuel Buttigieg, Krystle Farrugia (eds.). Midsea books.
2013. ISBN 9789993274391.
This publication of History Week Proceedings by the Malta
Historical Society offersa multi-perspectival, temporally layered
representation of the social environments and political challenges
in Malta, spanning from early sixteenth century to the first half of
the twentieth. The collection of papers opens a window onto power
dynamics; struggles for symbolic and cultural capital; descriptions
of individuals' ambitions, pride, and entrepreneurial spirit; shifting
concepts of nationhood; and tensions between emergent cultural
identities. The individual papers presented are diverse in style, length
and focus yet they hang together comfortably, one complementing the
other, often raising questions that are echoed in the next.2014-01-01T00:00:00ZPalazzo Adriano in Sicily and the Jesuit Mission of 1638Cassar, Carmelhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/217292017-09-15T01:25:31Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Palazzo Adriano in Sicily and the Jesuit Mission of 1638
Authors: Cassar, Carmel
Abstract: The study that follows is based upon a three page manuscript
description of a mission which was carried out in 1638 at the
mountainous village of Palazzo Adriano by the Jesuits. The Arberesch
- as the Albanians of Italy are known - were originally allowed to settle
in Palazzo Adriano by the Abbot of Fossanova and Casamare who at
the time was the landowner of that area. According to Pietro Pompilio
Rodota, the original community which was established at Palazzo
Adriano consisted of thirteen extended families.But the territory
changed hands in 1527 when the Opezzinga family, a family of bankers
and merchants of Pisan origin, became the feudal overlords of the
territory.2014-01-01T00:00:00Z