| CODE | HST1050 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Maltese History in Context: An Overview | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will give students a coherent overview of the continuities and changes that characterize the history of Malta and the Mediterranean over the centuries. No prior knowledge is required, just a willingness and enthusiasm to learn. This study-unit is a self-contained one, but at the same time it will serve as a 'road-map' for students of the Diploma ‘Maltese History in Context’ as it will provide the bearings necessary to meander through a rich, complex and evocative past. Following an introductory lecture, students will be taken on a voyage from prehistory to contemporary times, with each session being presented by an expert in that particular field. The lectures are organized in a chronological sequence, but there is a strong thematic element running throughout. This is the proposed structure of the study-unit: • Introduction • The earliest Neolithic settlers • A unique prehistoric cultural achievement: The megalithic Temples of Malta • The later prehistory of Malta • Phoenician and Punic Malta • Roman Malta • Maritime Archaeology of the Maltese archipelago • Medieval Malta I • Medieval Malta II • Early modern Malta I • Early modern Malta II • The British colonial experience I • The British colonial experience II Study-Unit Aims: • To offer students insights into the study of Maltese history with an emphasis on a Mediterranean dimension; • To highlight developments over time in Malta and across the Mediterranean region; • To make students aware of debates within particular historiographical themes in Maltese history; • To underscore the interaction between the past and the present in the dynamics of the study of history. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • better appreciate and understand various phases in Maltese and Mediterranean history; • proceed with greater ease to the study of specific areas in Maltese history that will be explored in detail in specific study-units within the Diploma; • recall what some of the key sources are for the study of particular time periods and themes; • recognise the intricacies of historical research and historiography. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • engage in more meaningful conversation and discussion on various aspects of Maltese and Mediterranean history; • transmit a better understanding of Maltese / Mediterranean history to others, including visitors to the islands; • engage critically with works on Maltese / Mediterranean history; • show an awareness that there are divergent points-of-view about history as a discipline and the past as a category of analysis. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: • B. Blouet, The story of Malta, (several editions, latest 2004). • A. Bonanno, Malta. Phoenician, Punic, and Roman, (Malta, 2005). • T. Gambin and E. Azzopardi, Archaeology and the Sea in the Maltese islands, (Malta, 2012). • D.H. Trump, Malta: Prehistory and Temples, (Malta, 2002). • C. Dalli, Malta: The Medieval Millenium, (Malta, 2006). • E. Buttigieg, Nobility, Faith and Masculinity. The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700, (London and New York, 2011). • V. Mallia-Milanes, (ed.), Hospitaller Malta: studies on early modern Malta and the Order of St John of Jerusalem, (Malta, 1993). • D. Fenech, Responsibility and Power in Inter-war Malta. Book One: Endemic Democracy, (Malta 2005). • H. Frendo, The Origins of Maltese Statehood, (Malta, 2000). • H. Frendo, Storja ta’ Malta: Zmien l-Inglizi s-Seklu Dsatax, (Malta, 2004). • V. Mallia-Milanes, (ed.), The British Colonial Experience, 1800-1964, (Malta, 1988). • J.M. Pirotta, Fortress Colony, Final Act, (Malta 1987-2017). Supplementary Readings: • A. Bonanno, ‘The lure of the islands: Malta’s first Neolithic colonizers’, in N. Phoca-Cosmetatou (ed.), The First Mediterranean Islanders: initial occupation and survival strategies, (Oxford, 2001), pp. 145-156. • B. Bruno, Roman and Byzantine Malta: trade and economy (trans. G. Cutajar, with P.J. Hudson), (Malta, 2009). • A.J. Frendo, (ed.), ‘Malta and the Phoenician World’ (multiple articles there), Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 3, 1993, pp. 169-290. • G. Markoe, Phoenicians, (London, 2002). • C. Cassar, Society, culture and identity in early modern Malta, (Malta, 2000). • F. Ciappara, Society and the Inquisition in early modern Malta, (Malta, 2001). • J. Chircop, (ed.), Revisiting Labour History, (Malta, 2012). |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit is solely offered to Undergraduate Diploma in Maltese History in Context students. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Huw S Groucutt Maxine Anastasi Simone Azzopardi Emanuel Buttigieg Charles Dalli Timothy Gambin Nicholas Vella Abigail Zammit |
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