Emanuel Buttigieg

Nobility, Faith and Masculinity (eBook, PDF)

The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441102430
• Artikelnr.: 38300449

Autorenporträt

Emanuel Buttigieg is Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Malta. He read for a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.