03382nam 2200709 450 991081158180332120200514202323.01-4725-9976-41-4411-7867-81-283-11664-297866131166421-4411-0243-410.5040/9781472599766(CKB)2670000000083810(EBL)692806(OCoLC)726734879(SSID)ssj0000524502(PQKBManifestationID)12177286(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524502(PQKBWorkID)10547149(PQKB)10532422(MiAaPQ)EBC692806(Au-PeEL)EBL692806(CaPaEBR)ebr10470193(CaONFJC)MIL311664(OCoLC)1154878618(UtOrBLW)bpp09257613(MiAaPQ)EBC6160569(MiAaPQ)EBC1744087(Au-PeEL)EBL1744087(OCoLC)884017304(EXLCZ)99267000000008381020111006d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNobility, faith and masculinity the Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c. 1580-c. 1700 /Emanuel Buttigieg1st ed.London :Continuum,2011.1 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-4990-2 1-4411-0343-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-308) and index.Introduction -- 1. Becoming a Hospitaller -- 2. Hospitaller Ranks: Hierarchy, Patriarchy and Age -- 3. Religious Identity, Beliefs and Practices -- 4. The Body, Chastity and Sexuality -- 5. Violence and Punishments -- Conclusion: Towards a Cultural History of the Order of Malta -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Popes, Grand Masters, Bishops and Inquisitors c.1580-c.1700 -- Bibliography -- IndexThis 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 OrderMasculinityNobilityCrusadesMasculinity.Nobility.271.7912Buttigieg Emanuel1689517UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910811581803321Nobility, faith and masculinity4064633UNINA