Eight thousand years of Maltese maritime history : trade, piracy, and naval warfare in the central Mediterranean /
Offering a general overview of essential facts, including geographical and oceanographic factors that would have affected the navigation of historic ships, major relevant historical texts and documents, the logistical possibilities of ancient ship design, a detailed study of sea currents and wind pa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
©2008.
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| Series: | New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Ancient history of Malta : from prehistory to the Arab conquest
- Medieval Malta : from the period of Muslim occupation to the arrival of the Order of Saint John
- The Order of Saint John in Malta
- Naval organization of the Order of Saint John
- Naval functions of the Order of Saint John
- Maltese population, 1530-1798
- Conclusions
- Appendix A. The Malta Project : underwater survey of Malta
- Appendix B. Gran Caracca di Rodi in history and iconography
- Appendix C. Reconstruction of an eighteenth-century third-rate ship : San Giovanni Basttista
- Appendix D. Summary of major naval undertakings and naval forces of the Order, 1523-1798.
