MALTA
A Case Study in International Cross-Currents
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Contents
Preface & List of Abbreviations (ix, xiii-xiv)
Malta's changing role in Mediterranean cross-currents. From prehistory to Roman times Anthony Bonanno (1-12)
Post-Muslim Malta: A case study in artistic and architectural cross-currents Mario Buhagiar (13-31)
Medieval Malta: The non-written and the written sources Anthony Luttrell (33-45)
Sicile, Malte et monde Musulman Henri Bresc (47-79)
Aspects of daily life in late-medieval Malta and Gozo Godfrey Wettinger (81-90)
Language and demography in Malta: The social foundations of the symbiosis between Semitic and Romance in standard Maltese Joseph M. Brincat (91-110)
The development of mathematical education in Malta to 1798: A case study of cross-cultural influences Stanley Fiorini (111-145)
The social and religious world of a Knight of Malta in the Caribbean, c. 1632-1660 David F. Allen (147-157)
From Valona to Crete: Veneto-Maltese relations from the late 1630's to the outbreak of the Cretan war Victor Mallia Milanes (161-173)
La France et Malte au XVIIIème siècle. Le problème de la double nationalité Alain Blondy (175-186)
The Maltese medical tradition: Overseas contacts that have influenced its development Roger Ellul Micallef (187-198)
Romantic writers in Malta: Literary and Historical Perspectives Peter Vassallo (199-205)
Linguistic and thematic cross-currents in early Maltese literature Oliver Friggieri (207-214)
Pynchon and an international dimension of the Sette Giugno Peter Serracino Inglott (215-226)
Plurality and polarity: Early Italian m in Maltese colonial politics Henry Frendo (227-240)
The foreign office, the colonial office and the spy: The Belardinelli affair, Malta, 1934-35 Barry Collett (241-252)
The Italian armistice of 1943 Denis Mack Smith (253-266)
Mediterranean regionality Dominic Fenech (267-277)
The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state Fred Halliday (279-300)
