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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14900| Title: | Decline and fall? : the Order of the Hospital and its surrender of Malta, 1798 |
| Authors: | Mallia-Milanes, Victor |
| Keywords: | Hompesch zu Bolheim, Ferdinand von, 1744-1805 Knights of Malta -- Malta -- History -- 18th century France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 Order of St John -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Secularization -- Malta -- 18th century Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Junior College |
| Citation: | Mallia-Milanes, V. (2016). Decline and Fall? The Order of the Hospital and its Surrender of Malta, 1798. Symposia Melitensia, Vol. 12, p. 117-137 |
| Abstract: | Traditional history claims that by the end of the eighteenth century, the Order of the Hospital had reached the end of a long-drawn-out process of secularization and decline. It also asserts that in 1798 the Hospitallers surrendered Malta as a direct result of this debilitating process. The paper argues against both misconceptions. First, at no stage in the eighteenth century, or indeed earlier, may the Order be said to have experienced decline. Secondly, within the current state of Hospitaller scholarship, its surrender of Malta may only be attributed to the devitalizing and crippling influence the French Revolution had on the institution. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/14900 |
| ISSN: | 1812-7509 |
| Appears in Collections: | SymMel, 2016, Volume 12 SymMel, 2016, Volume 12 |
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