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Title: Reflections on the historiography of hospitaller Gozo
Other Titles: A focus on Gozo
Authors: Mallia-Milanes, Victor
Keywords: Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798
Gozo (Malta) -- History
Issue Date: 1997
Publisher: Formatek Ltd.
Citation: Mallia-Milanes, V. (1997). Reflections on the historiography of hospitaller Gozo. In J. Farrugia & L. Briguglio (Eds.), A focus on Gozo (pp. 146-151). Gozo: Formatek Ltd.
Abstract: If were asked to describe the state of our historiography today, I would not hesitate to define it as one experiencing a general crisis. Ironically, this crisis has been the result of the overwhelming quantitative progress achieved by our local archival researchers, Gozitan and Maltese, the massive accumulation (or should it be called a 'monstrous agglomeration'?) of new factual knowledge about our past. The remark may sound unfair, but I think it would be unfairer still, perhaps, if the hard truths which sometimes need telling are either left untold or masked beneath a purposely vague or ambiguous language. Indeed the purpose of this brief communication is to provoke discussion, a rethink, not so much on our Hospitaller past as on the way this past has been, and is being, approached and reconstructed.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/76557
ISBN: 9990949034
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