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Title: | Nobility, faith and masculinity : the Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700 |
Authors: | Buttigieg, Emanuel |
Keywords: | Knights of Malta -- History -- 17th century Order of St John -- History -- 17th century Nobility Masculinity 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: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Continuum |
Citation: | Buttigieg, E. (2011). Nobility, faith and masculinity : the Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700. London & New York: Continuum |
Abstract: | This is an important study of elite European noblemen who joined the Order of Malta. The Order - functioning in parallel with the convents that absorbed the surplus daughters of the nobility - provided a highly respectable outlet for sons not earmarked for marriage. The process of becoming a Hospitaller was a semi-structured one, involving clear-cut (if flexible) social and financial requirements on the part of the candidate, and a mixture of formal and informal socialization into the ways of the Order. Once enrolled, a Hospitaller became part of a very hierarchical and ethnically mixed organisation, within which he could seek offices and status. This process was delineated by a complex interaction of internal factors - hierarchy, patriarchy and age - set within external mechanisms such as papal patronage and interference. This book is innovative in its methodology, drawing on a wide range of sources and applying historiographical approaches not previously brought to bear on the Order. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87489 |
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