A Malta University Press book launch
Documentary Sources of Maltese History Part II:
Documents In The State Archives, Palermo no.5:
Cancelleria Regia: 1500-1515
Compiled, transcribed and edited by Prof. Stanley Fiorini
The book published will be launched at Erin Serracino Inglott Hall, (Lecture Theatre I) University Campus, Msida on Friday, 16 November at 18:30. The panel will be composed of Prof. William Zammit, Dr Joan Abela, and the author with Prof. Henry Frendo in the chair. A reception will follow. The launch is open to the general public.
With the present work, the series Documentary Sources of Maltese History is now seeing its fifteenth volume, the fifth in the sub-series dedicated to the Chancery records held at Palermo. The first four volumes covered the years 1259-1500 and the present one extends the span to 1515. The gap, down to 1530, is closing fast; after that year, with the arrival of the Order of St John in Malta, these records cease to occupy centre-stage in Maltese political and administrative affairs.
The contents of the present volume – a total of 405 documents – are particularly significant because they cover neatly the gap in local municipal records – the Acta Juratorum et Consilii Civitatis et Insulae Maltae – which, for the sixteenth century, only start at 1512.
Like the previous volumes in this sub-series, the present one continues to provide interested readers and, particularly, researchers, with important details of the royal government of these islands without which the solid historiographical basis for the period would be lacking. This is particularly so for Gozo, practically all of whose records are still missing after the 1551 tragedy. (From the General Editor’s Foreword)
Like the previous volumes in this sub-series, the present one continues to provide interested readers and, particularly, researchers, with important details of the royal government of these islands without which the solid historiographical basis for the period would be lacking. This is particularly so for Gozo, practically all of whose records are still missing after the 1551 tragedy. (From the General Editor’s Foreword)
The book will be on sale at a pre-publication discount. Only one hundred copies have been printed for this series.
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