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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/11441| Title: | Gleanings of maritime life in the mid 18th century in Malta |
| Authors: | Cassar, Paul |
| Keywords: | Order of St John -- History -- 18th century La Vallette, Jean Parisot, 1494-1568 Knights of Malta -- History -- 18th century Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Malta -- History, Naval -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 |
| Issue Date: | 1995 |
| Publisher: | Friends of the Maritime Museum |
| Citation: | Cassar, Paul (1995). Gleanings of maritime life in the mid 18th century in Malta. In the Friends of the Maritime Museum, Proceedings during a seminar about "The Navy of the Knights of St. John" held at the Malta Maritime Museum, Vittoriosa, on 10th June 1995. Vittoriosa: Friends of the Maritime Museum. |
| Abstract: | This study is based on a number of manuscript notebooks held at the National Archives, Rabat, Malta. There is a series of such notebooks or libretti written in Italian from the 1st June 1743 to the end of February 1747 but the sequence is not continuous as there are missing ones covering several months in each year, the only complete year being 1746.These libretti confirm the evidence that the Mediterranean has, since hundreds of years, been an active zone of naval warfare with Malta as a trysting post for seafarers and their ships; and also a barrier, through its quarantine system, for halting the maritime spread of communicable diseases from the Middle East to Western Europe. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/11441 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCWHMlt |
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