The International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta is organising a a public lecture by Prof. Frans Ciappara The lecture entitled 'Social and Religious Life in Eighteenth-Century Malta' will be held on Monday 16 May, at 18:30 at the Attard Parish Hall. A string quartet will be in attendance.
This talk attempts to recover the 'voice of the voiceless', the people who wrote neither diaries nor letters or family memoirs and left no written records of their thoughts and feelings. Their existence was ignored or taken for granted. It discusses social structure and employment, parish government and the role of the parish priest, solidarity among parishioners, mobility, marriage and the family, religion in the life of the people, and death.
Prof. Francis Ciappara B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Dunelm) lectures at the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. His research focuses on the social, cultural and political history of Malta, especially in the eighteenth century. He has published works on the Roman Inquisition, marriage, the village community, sanctuary, parish priest and parishioners, death, confraternities, and the enlightenment. Prof. Ciappara is a member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and the editor of 'The Journal of Baroque Studies'.
