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A Concise History of Malta
0€23.95Malta consists of a minuscule central Mediterranean archipelago whose geographical isolation made possible the development of peculiar characteristics starting from prehistoric times. At the same time cultural influences from neighbouring southern European…
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Daughters of Eve
0€27.95During the sixteenth century, religious reform provided a rhetoric which insisted that the proper place for women was the home under patriarchal control. Throughout Europe, confining and limiting norms were imposed on…
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Grand Master Jehan de Vallete
0€15.00Hero of the Ottoman Siege of Malta and Founder of Valletta Grand Master Jehan de Vallete is best known for leading the Order of St John during the Great Siege of Malta…
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Health, Plague and Society in Early Modern Malta
0€25.00The demographic cycle of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Malta makes chilling reading: around a fifth to a quarter of live births dies before their first year, hald a geneeration died before reaching adulthood,…
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Malta and Holy War
0€30.00Cassar demonstrates a refined understanding of the interaction between local and transregional dynamics, showing how Malta’s history cannot be disentangled from the broader currents of the Spanish-Ottoman conflict. His analysis offers a…
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Mediterranean Jews, Crypto-Jews and the Inquisition in Early Modern Malta
0€45.00Early modern Malta served as a place of transition for those passing between western Christendom, Islamic North Africa and the Near East. But it was above all a Catholic frontier society –…
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Society, Culture and Identity In Early Modern Malta
0€25.95I say with confidence... that Carmel Cassar has put his study of anthropology and history at the University of Cambridge to good use. His sections, on language, myth and identity break new…
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