/library/oar/handle/123456789/38726 2025-12-21T23:05:32Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/24809 Title: Storja 1996 Editors: Frendo, Henry Abstract: Contents: Editorial, Continuing Where We Left Off: Storja is Reborn, Henry Frendo; The MUHS - Past and Present, Evelyn Pullicino; From Jerusalem To Valletta: The Evolution of the Order of St John's Chapter- General (1131-1631), Mark Aloisio; U Mulu Di Malta: The Maltese Trade in Donkeys and Mules, Carmel Cassar; A Saint or an Impostor? The case of Francesca Protopsalti During The Plague of 1676, Kenneth Gambin; Malta in 1776: The Impressions of a Future Minister of the French Republic, Richard Spiteri; Everyday Life in 'British' Malta, Henry Frendo; A Select List of History - Related Dissertations in the Humanities (1979 -1995), Elaine Micallef Valenzia; Abstracts of History Dissertations Submitted in 1995: The Chapter-General of the Order of St John, Mark Aloisio; Aspects of Crime in the Harbour Area 1741-1746, Joseph Attard; The use of political cartoons in history teaching, Rita Azzopardi; Heresy and the Inquisition in a Frontier Society, James Debono; Cospicua 1930-1950 A Case Study in Historical Demography, Josephine Diacono; New Wine in Old Bottles? The Electoral Experience during the Life of the 1921 Constitution, Mark Farrugia; Popular Culture and the Inquisition 1677-1678, Kenneth Gambin; Aspects of Russo-Maltese Relations 1770-1994, Elaine Micallef Valenzia; Malta Under Crown Colony Rule 1933-1939, Ruth Vella; An Overview of Books about Malta Published between 1978 and 1987, Claire Zammit, Mark Aloisio, Stefan Cachia, Kenneth Gambin and Marcia Young. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/24808 Title: A Saint or an impostor? : the case of Francesca Protopsalti during the plague of 1676 Authors: Gambin, Kenneth Abstract: Following the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church attempted to limit widespread beliefs on sainthood. Yet, even though by the late seventeenth century ecclesiastical control proved to be largely successful, in a society where the local clergy actively participated and shared traditional beliefs, the reforms ushered in by the Tridentine Council were slow to penetrate. Access to sacred power over natural misfortunes and calamities which saints provided through prayer, pilgrimage and relics were unceasing. This often led local populations into conflict with the central authorities of the Church as they continually proposed new holy people and miraculous events to meet the demand. It was the duty of the Inquisition Tribunal to examine people suspected of questionable sanctity while they were still alive and decide whether it was a true or simulated saintliness. Some of them were accepted as genuine by the Catholic Church, but others were rejected as false. Yet all of these manifestations in some way expressed the meaning and role of sanctity in early modern society. Here we shall attempt to discuss the models of sanctity in early modern Malta with a special emphasis on a local saint as well as the personalisation of the sacred and the function of relics. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/24807 Title: Every day life in 'British' Malta Abstract: Is the British connection in Malta becoming increasingly distant and dated? Was our 'Englishness' never much more than a varnish? I was recently sitting at a water-front restaurant table by the Msida Yacht Marina with an old time friend who had repatriated after twenty years in England. The warm breeze, the shimmering sea, the leisurely pace, all somehow evoked a colonial atmosphere, or at least an inkling of it: the sort of 'times past' feeling still transmitted by hotels like Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe-Zambia border or at the Raffles in Singapore, or indeed by the new golf club gazebo at the Marsa. We had both been overseas, he longer than I; but we had gravitated back to a common point of origin: what a flimsy school text-book in the 1950s used to call 'Malta, Our Island Home'. 'So how do you spend your time here?' he asked, as the wine was being served. 'What do you do usually?' Good Lord! How did you live? What did you do? How were you organising your time? My diary was on the table. 'How do you like the fish?' I replied: 'I think it's fresh'. Turn these questions in your head, and try to begin consciously and comprehensively to describe your 'every day life', wherever and whatever that may be. It is a very tall order, even if you had to do it now and for yourself alone, let alone doing that for different times of days of the week, of months, years, decades, generations, for a whole community or society. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/24806 Title: From Jerusalem to Valletta : the evolution of the Order of St John's chapter-general (1131-1631) Abstract: The Hospitaller's chapter-general was the Order's sole legislative authority. It also supervised routine administrative business and acted as the highest court of justice. The decisions of chapters-general were recorded in the statutes, which thereby built up into a corpus of regulations on all aspects of the Order's structure. The chapter-general, together with the Grand Master and Council was the heart of the Hospitaller government. Indeed, in many respects it was the chief organ of that government for no member of, or body within, the Hospital, could refute to ignore its decrees. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z