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Title: | The habit makes the knight : Hospitallers dressing up and dressing down |
Other Titles: | Power, costume & scenography. Making fashion a statement in 18th-19th century Malta |
Authors: | Buttigieg, Emanuel |
Keywords: | Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Knights of Malta -- History Order of St John -- History Clothing and dress -- Malta -- 16th century Clothing and dress -- Malta -- 17th century Clothing and dress -- Malta -- 18th century |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Publisher: | Malta Libraries |
Citation: | Buttigieg, E. (2022). The habit makes the knight : Hospitallers dressing up and dressing down. In M. Camilleri & M. Spiteri [Eds.], Power, Costume & Scenography. Making Fashion a Statement in 18th-19th-Century Malta (pp. 66-85). Malta: Malta Libraries. |
Abstract: | ‘With the Habit of a Knight one came to be dressed up as a new man’; thus, according to Fra Jean Baptiste le Mariner de Cany (1689), donning the garment of a Hospitaller was a profoundly transformative experience. The ritual of investiture marked every Hospitaller’s life; its obverse, the ritual of defrocking, marked the lives of only some, but its repercussions were profound. Members of the Order of Malta had a very distinctive habit they were meant to wear that denoted a collective identity, yet many retained their individuality through their clothes and related accessories. Taken together, such elements helped to shape the identity and image of being a Hospitaller. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124923 |
ISBN: | 9789995793111 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHis |
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