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  Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, C.1580-c.1700 (Hardback) By (author) Emanuel Buttigieg

  

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  Short Description for Nobility, Faith and MasculinityA study of the Hospitaller Knights of Malta in the early modern era focusing on nobility, faith and masculinity. It is about elite European noblemen who joined the Order of Malta. The Order - functioning in parallel with the convents - provided a highly respectable outlet for sons not earmarked for marriage.
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  • Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 01 April 2011
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Medieval History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Christian Communities & Monasticism
  • ISBN 13: 9781441103437 ISBN 10: 1441103430
  • Sales rank: 128,303

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• This is a new study of the "Hospitaller Knights of Malta" in the early modern era focusing on nobility, faith and masculinity. This is an important study of elite European noblemen who joined the Order of Malta. The Order - functioning in parallel with the convents that absorbed the surplus daughters of the nobility - provided a highly respectable outlet for sons not earmarked for marriage. The process of becoming a Hospitaller was a semi-structured one, involving clear-cut (if flexible) social and financial requirements on the part of the candidate, and a mixture of formal and informal socialization into the ways of the Order. Once enrolled, a Hospitaller became part of a very hierarchical and ethnically mixed organisation, within which he could seek offices and status. This process was delineated by a complex interaction of internal factors - hierarchy, patriarchy and age - set within external mechanisms such as papal patronage and interference. This book is innovative in its methodology, drawing on a wide range of sources and applying historiographical approaches not previously brought to bear on the Order.