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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87469| Title: | The ‘Island of the Knights’ at the fault line to the Islamic World – a view from Malta |
| Other Titles: | Controversial histories - current views on the crusades. Engaging the crusades |
| Authors: | Buttigieg, Emanuel |
| Keywords: | Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- History Order of St John -- Mediterranean Region -- History Military religious orders -- Mediterranean Region -- History Hospitalers -- Mediterranean Region -- History Islands of the Mediterranean -- History Mediterranean Region -- History, Military |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Citation: | Buttigieg, E. (2020). The ‘Island of the Knights’ at the fault line to the Islamic World – a view from Malta. In F. Hinz & J. Meyer-Hamme (Eds.), Controversial histories - current views on the crusades. Engaging the crusades (pp. 33-35). London: Routledge. |
| Abstract: | During the years of the First Crusade (1095-1099) to Jerusalem the Maltese Islands were in an ambivalent position. Decades prior to this, Norman Chnst1an warriors were already conquering the fractious eclectic states of southern Italy. In 1060-61, the brothers Robert Guiscard (c.1015-1085) and Roger (c.1031-1101) conquered Messina in Sicily, which was to act as the springboard of the thirty-year Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily. In 1091, Roger attacked Malta, whose population at this point was largely Muslim. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87469 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHis |
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