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The Maltese Dialogue - Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights 1554-1556 (Paperback)
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The Maltese Dialogue - Giuseppe Cambiano, History, Institutions, and Politics of the Maltese Knights 1554-1556 (Paperback)
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The Maltese Dialogue is the first comprehensive treatise of the
history, institutions, and political projects of the Order of the
Knights of Saint John of the Hospital, commonly known as the
Maltese Order. It was written during the tenure of Grand Master Fra
Claude de la Sengle (1553-1557), although the conversation between
Commendator Fra Giuseppe Cambiano, one of the Order's most
prominent sixteenth-century functionaries, and three Venetian
patricians, on which the Dialogue is based, may have taken place
even earlier. The contents of the Dialogue fall in three
categories: the opening section is the first detailed precis of the
Hospitallers' history; then comes the bulk of the treatise,
presenting a concise summary of the Order's constitution,
institutional and legal organization, election procedures,
recruitment of knights, rituals of instalment, and financial
matters. The remaining section is a polemical expose arguing for
the benefit of the Order's abandoning of Malta and the recapturing
of Tripoli. The Dialogue offers a hitherto unexplored, first-rate
source on the Maltese knights' self-projection as a unique
transnational institution of early modern Europe in the era of
nation-states, on the power plays of the major political agents in
the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, and on Western Christian
strategies of engagement of Ottoman imperialism at the peak of its
expansion in the region. Those interested in the history of
Christian-Muslim interaction, the evolution of crusading practices
in the era of early modern predatory warfare, and the construction
of historical memory on the case study of the longest-lasting, and
still extant, knightly order, will find it to be a highly
intriguing and informative reading.
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