Interestingly, the collection of articles has an unusually long history; first drafted ten years ago, they have been enriched with constant and recent analysis. As predicted, the ‘Paceville syndrome’ has meanwhile spread across much of Malta and Gozo.

The picture is not completely grim, however, and the articles provide hope in collective action against the growing risks of excessive commodification and the hegemonic corporate control of planning decisions. They also point out the limits of collective action in a society entrapped in its parochial and clientelist loyalties.

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Carefully transcribed and supported by detailed indices, the volume offers valuable insight into Malta’s social, linguistic, and institutional history, while serving as an important resource for scholars, students, and researchers.

Besides the archival sources themselves, the volume also reconstructs the social and professional context of Notary Giacomo Bondin, situating him within broader administrative, commercial, and intellectual networks. This insight sheds light onto the dynamics of social status, economic activity, and cultural life in Malta at the time, including the years surrounding the arrival of the Order of St John.

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Din hija kollaborazzjoni bejn id-Dipartiment tal-Malti u Malta University Press.

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Early modern Malta served as a place of transition for those passing between western Christendom, Islamic North Africa and the Near East. But it was above all a Catholic frontier society – a status that the crusading Knights of Malta were eager to maintain. The presence of a Roman Inquisition tribunal ensured that Catholic residents of Malta and Gozo remained faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church; a modicum that was applied to every baptised individual.

The Inquisition was concerned with the Jews particularly because Judaism was perceived as a distorted reflection of the one true Christian religion. As a result, Jews were looked askance upon not so much for what they believed in, but for their rejection of Christ and their denial of Catholic doctrine. These were the defining characteristics of Judaism.

The Jews that passed through Malta between the sixteenth and eighteenth century were few in number. They were in the main forcibly brought to Malta and reduced to slavery. Some managed to be ransomed. Of those that were not ransomed, some chose to convert to Christianity in the hope that life would be more tolerable for them. However, it was exceedingly difficult for neophytes to conceal their true convictions, and this often led to their denouncement in front of the Inquisition tribunal.

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This volume offers a fresh approach to student-teacher relationships in middle childhood from the perspective of children in primary schools. It explores how children express their learning and emotional needs, as well as their  experience of good and less good student-teacher relationships. Their apprehension of care and its reciprocity, of the need for time and proximity in teaching and learning, of the vicariousness of the experience, and crucially, of the place of learning in student-teacher relationships, is authentically evoked through rich verbatim quotations. Children’s accounts answer questions which teachers, parents, professionals and  policy-makers ask. In the experience of children, what makes a person a teacher?  What is a “good” student-teacher  relationship?  Can children with poor relationship histories have good relationships with new teachers? How is learning or  “doing well” integral to “getting on well”?

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This volume offers a fresh approach to student-teacher relationships in middle childhood from the perspective of children in primary schools. It explores how children express their learning and emotional needs, as well as their  experience of good and less good student-teacher relationships. Their apprehension of care and its reciprocity, of the need for time and proximity in teaching and learning, of the vicariousness of the experience, and crucially, of the place of learning in student-teacher relationships, is authentically evoked through rich verbatim quotations. Children’s accounts answer questions which teachers, parents, professionals and  policy-makers ask. In the experience of children, what makes a person a teacher?  What is a “good” student-teacher  relationship?  Can children with poor relationship histories have good relationships with new teachers? How is learning or  “doing well” integral to “getting on well”?

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Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources it argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews is adequately understood only in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations. Contrary to the common view that Ottoman Jews did not experience the impact of the Tanzimat reforms until the mid-1850s, this study shows that their effects were felt as early as 1840. Furthermore, this book offers a window onto life and intercommunal relations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Ottoman era.

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Cleardo Naudi, who hailed from a well-connected Maltese family, began his tertiary education at the University of Malta and completed his medical studies at the University of Naples. Naudi went on to further his postgraduate education in London.

During the first decades of British rule in Malta, he managed to contact a number of English missionary societies, and did his best to persuade them to establish footholds on the island.

When in London, he met and forged important connections and conversances with some of the leading chemists of the day, which at times blossomed into useful friendships. Particularly close was his relationship with the Quaker, William Allen. In the meantime, he occupied the first Chair of Chemistry and Materia Medica at Malta's University...

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