Author: Robert L. DauberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Austrian Knights of Malta
Author: Robert L. DauberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Knights of Malta
Author: H. J. A. SirePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300068856
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This is a complete history of the Order of St John or Knights of Malta. Founded as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the Order has in succeeding centuries played an important military, religious and political role in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean.
ANEIGNUNGEN, ENTFREMDUNGEN. THE AUSTRIAN PLAYWRIGH
Author: Clemens RuthnerPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820463759
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays by prominent North American and European experts in Austrian literature concerning the Austrian playwright and author Franz Grillparzer, his relationship to various literary traditions, and his reception from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters originated at a symposium held in February of 2003 at the University of Alberta sponsored by the University of Alberta's Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies.
Historical Dictionary of Malta
Author: Uwe Jens RudolfPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810873907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Malta compiles the unusually rich and long history of the islands comprising the country of Malta. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-reference dictionary entries describing all of the major places, persons, institutions, and events that have shaped the history of the archipelago.
Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Author: Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Titles of Courtesy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: The Military Orders Volume I
Author: Malcolm BarberPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book contains 42 papers delivered at the International Conference on Military Orders held at Clerkenwell, London, in September, 1992. There are five sections covering the Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic Knights, the Spanish Orders, and the perceptions and role of the orders.The impact of the military orders on European History has been profound, both in what they achieved and in the way interpretations of these achievements have since shaped European perceptions. Their influence can be found in places as far apart as Lithuania and Andalusia, Scotland and Palestine, and their chronological range extends from their origins in the 12th century down to the present day.This importance is fully reflected in this book, where the latest research is brought together through the contributions of scholars from 13 countries.
The Great Siege, Malta 1565
Author: Ernle BradfordPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497617308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and launch an offensive into western Europe, Suleiman needed the small but strategically crucial island of Malta. But Suleiman’s attempt to take the island from the Holy Roman Empire’s Knights of St. John would emerge as one of the most famous and brutal military defeats in history. Forty-two years earlier, Suleiman had been victorious against the Knights of St. John when he drove them out of their island fortress at Rhodes. Believing he would repeat this victory, the sultan sent an armada to Malta. When they captured Fort St. Elmo, the Ottoman forces ruthlessly took no prisoners. The Roman grand master La Vallette responded by having his Ottoman captives beheaded. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked, none given. Ernle Bradford’s compelling and thoroughly researched account of the Great Siege of Malta recalls not just an epic battle, but a clash of civilizations unlike anything since the time of Alexander the Great. It is “a superior, readable treatment of an important but little-discussed epic from the Renaissance past . . . An astonishing tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage
Author: Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage
Author: John DebrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
Includes an unpaged appendix, "royal warrant holders," and 19 a "war honours supplement."