The Land and the Cross

Properties of the Order of St John between Centre and Periphery (16th-18th centuries)
Herausgeber: Said-Zammit, George Alexander; Vanesio, Valeria; Burgassi, Valentina

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Produktbeschreibung

The Land and the Cross establishes a foundation for future scholarship and stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration to recover and protect a heritage that is today neglected, hidden or abandoned.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032154527
• ISBN-10: 1032154527
• Artikelnr.: 71847333

Autorenporträt

Valentina Burgassi is an assistant professor in the history of early modern architecture at Politecnico di Torino. She holds a joint PhD in Architectural and Landscape Heritage from Politecnico di Torino and in Histoire de l'Art from École Pratiques des Hautes Études. She holds a post-MA specialisation in Cultural Heritage and Landscape (2012). She worked as a teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano (2014-2018) and as a fellow at the Palladio Museum (2020) and the École française de Rome (2018). She is part of the executive committee of the Construction History Group (Politecnico di Torino). George Alexander Said-Zammit holds a PhD from the University of Leiden. He specialises in domestic space in the Maltese Islands and its development within a Mediterranean and European context between 1300 and 1970. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Said-Zammit lectures on domestic space and space syntax for the Faculty of the Built Environment of the University of Malta. He has authored various academic publications worldwide and has participated in conferences in Malta and abroad. He is an Ambassador of Malta. Valeria Vanesio is a lecturer in the Department of Library, Information and Archive Sciences (University of Malta) and an international associate of the Malta Study Center. She holds a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome and two specialist degrees from the State Archives of Rome and the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano. She was a post-doc and an archivist of the Malta Study Center and was responsible for the first three-year project of reorganisation of the historical Magistral Archives of the Order of St John in Rome. Her most recent publication is 'The Order of St John's archival entanglements: cataloguing experiments at the Magistral Archives in Rome' (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The Religion and the Land
Emanuel Buttigieg & Rakele Fiott
PART 1: POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY
2 Serving the Convent: The commanderies of the Order of St John in the
sixteenth century
Anne Brogini
3 European dynasticism and Hospitaller interest: The Grand Priory of
Castile and León at the end of the reign of Charles II of Habsburg
(1679-1700)
Roberto Quirós Rosado
4 The Order of the Knights Hospitaller: Wealthy landowners?
Alain Blondy
5 In the shadows of Secularisation, Church policy and Febronianism. The
transfer of the property of the Societas Jesu to the Bavarian Grand Priory
of the Order of St John
Thomas Freller
PART 2: ARCHIVES AND INSTITUTIONS
6 'Per la distanza de' luoghi e per la varietà delle Nationi': People,
properties and archival procedures of the Order of St John in the early
modern period
Valeria Vanesio
7 The Sicilian Priory of Messina and its commanderies from the sixteenth to
the nineteenth century
Fabrizio D'Avenia
8 The commanderies de jure patronatus in the Venetian Mainland from the
sixteenth to the eighteenth century: Land, control and power
Luigi Robuschi
9 Dispersed archives, authority control and the land surveys of the Order
of the Knights Hospitaller
Daniel K. Gullo
PART 3: PATRIMONIAL NETWORKS
10 The Patrimonial network and heritage of the Order of St John in Portugal
in the late medieval and early modern period
Paula Maria de Carvalho Pinto Costa
11 Artistic landscape and visual memory: The Order of Saint John in the
Crown of Castile
Olga Pérez Monzón
12 The Order, its city, and its peripheries: Rural-urban dialectics in
early modern Malta
Daniel Borg & Christian Mifsud
13 The cabrei of the Order of St John in Malta as a means of communication
to transmit power and material wealth
George A. Said-Zammit
14 Hospitaller commanderies as an international phenomenon: The lens of
architectural sources in the early modern Italian States
Valentina Burgassi
Afterword
Victor Mallia-Milanes