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Title: | Capital, conflict, and Mediterranean frontiers : the mobilization of funds from the Order of St John’s European estates in early modernity |
Authors: | Grech, Ivan |
Keywords: | Knights of Malta -- Economic aspects Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Capitalism -- Mediterranean Region Feudalism -- Mediterranean Region Hospitalers -- History |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | Department of History. University of Malta |
Citation: | Grech, I. (2018). Capital, conflict, and Mediterranean frontiers : the mobilization of funds from the Order of St John’s European estates in early modernity. Journal of Maltese History, 5(2), 3-35. |
Abstract: | The Order of St John was originally founded as a hospice-keeping institution in eleventh-century Syria. By the following century it metamorphosed into a Christian military unit to adjust to geopolitical evolutions which saw the Holy Land transformed into a frontier territory where Muslims and Christians clashed bracing the mantra of religious ideology. Keeping hospices and fighting Islam increased the financial demands on the Order, and consequently the reliance on its continental estates which the knights hospitallers systematically acquired throughout the first few centuries of their existence. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47782 |
ISSN: | 20774338 |
Appears in Collections: | JMH, Volume 5, No. 2 (2018) JMH, Volume 5, No. 2 (2018) |
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