https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/9193 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:28:14 GMT 2026-04-13T02:28:14Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47479 Title: Architecture Authors: Mahoney, Leonard A. Abstract: It was at the height of the Renaissance, in 1530, when Charles V handed over the two small islands of Malta and Gozo to the Knights of St John. The momentous event was to usher in a long period of building activity which produced some of the island's finest architectural monuments, but it was not the first time that Malta had stood at the peak of architectural achievement. Prof. Colin Renfrew, the famous archaeologist describes the Maltese neolithic temples (ca. 3000 B.C.) as "the earliest free-standing monuments in stone in the world" and the "memorably imposing' facade of the Ġgantija temple, in Gozo, as "perhaps the earliest architecturally conceived exterior in the world". Sat, 01 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47479 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47458 Title: The first schism affecting the Order of Saint Lazarus Abstract: The end of the 13th century saw the Order of Saint Lazarus lose its raison d'être with the expulsion of the Christian forces from the Kingdom of Jerusalem through the fall of Acre in April 1291. The Order had its origins before the First Crusade of 1099 as an establishment known as the Hospitalis Infirmorum Sancti Lazari de Jerusalem sited outside the walls of Jerusalem set up with the specific aim of caring for the victims of leprosy. The Order eventually adopted a further military role participating in various military campaigns in the Outremer. It was placed under the suffrage of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and confirmed to be under the Rule of Saint Augustine through the Bull promulgated by Pope Alexander IV in 1255. Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47458 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47455 Title: A Hospitalis infirmorum Sancti Lazari de Jerusalem before the first crusade Abstract: The origins of the Military Hospitaller Orders, which saw their establishment during the Crusader Period, are shrouded in a haze of reality and myth stemming from the fact that 17th-18th century historians writing about these Orders assumed the role of enthusiastic eulogists to the detriment of objective history writing. The exact origins of the Leprosis ecclesia Sancti Lazari qua est in Jerusalem Confratribus and the Fratrum Sancti Lazari extra muros Jerusalem leprosis as referred in the deeds of donation dated 1144/1150 remain questionable. The earliest mention in the available cartulary of an ecclesiam de Caciaco, totam videlicet partem nostram, beatis pauperibus Sancti Lazari is made in an 1112 Charter given by Louis VI the Fat of France. This, however, specifically refers to the Maladrerie de Saint-Lazare-lés-Orléans and not directly to the Jerusalem establishment. Another undated document attributed to Henri I of England (dated circa 1106-1120) by the 18th century historian of the Order P.E. Gautier de Sibert is, in fact, a charter document given by Henri II of England. Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47455 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47453 Title: Foreword : King St Louis and the Order of St Lazarus Abstract: The Sancti Lazari Ordinis Academia Internationalis held its second academic meeting in conjunction with the International Pilgrimage of the Military & Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem held in June 2017 in the Cathedral of Monreale in Sicily. During the meeting, the statutes of the Academy were formally accepted opening the way forward towards the legalization of the Academy. The Cathedral in Monreale is particularly important to the Order of Saint Lazarus since it houses the remains of King Saint Louis who was a past patron of the Order. King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, 25 April 1215; died while on Crusade near Tunis, 25 August 1270. St Louis’s canonization was proclaimed at Orvieto in 1297 by Boniface VIII. Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47453 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z