The Last of the Crusaders: The Knights of St. John and Malta in the Eighteenth Century - Brossura

Cavaliero, Roderick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1845117298 ISBN 13: 9781845117290

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2008

Riassunto

Founded in 1080, the Knights Hospitaller of St. John and Malta was a militant order of monk-soldiers who alone outlasted the bloody centuries of the Crusades. Their last hundred years were spent as sovereigns of Malta, fighting Barbary pirates and policing the Mediterranean. Under their protection, Malta flourished, but the Knights themselves were softened by the years of relative stability and indolent living. When Napoleon invaded in 1798, the island fell easily and the Knights fled, powerless and depleted, to Russia. In riveting and colourful detail, The Last of the Crusaders tells the story of the decline of this once mighty order and of the island that was their final sanctuary.

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L'autore

Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian, and author of Italia Romantica: English Romantics and Italian Freedom, Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of the Bailli de Suffren, Independence of Brazil and Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire, all published by I.B.Tauris.

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• Editore: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845117298
• ISBN 13: 9781845117290
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 298