Eight thousand years of Maltese maritime history : trade, piracy, and naval warfare in the central Mediterranean
"Building on her systematic underwater archaeological survey of the Maltese archipelago, Ayse Atauz presents a sweeping, groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to maritime history in the Mediterranean. Offering a general overview of essential facts, including geographical and oceanographic factors that would have affected the navigation of historic ships, major relevant historical texts and documents, the logistical possibilities of ancient ship design, a detailed study of sea currents and wind patterns, and especially the archaeological remains (or scarcity thereof) around the Maltese maritime perimeter, she builds a convincing argument that Malta mattered far less in maritime history than has been previously asserted." "Atauz's conclusions are of great importance to the history of Malta and of the Mediterranean in general, and her archaeological discoveries about ships are a major contribution to the history of shipbuilding and naval architecture."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, ©2008
History
xiv, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9780813031798, 0813031796
163594113
Ancient history of Malta : from prehistory to the Arab conquest
Medieval Malta : from the period of Muslim occupation to the arrival of the Order of Saint John
The Order of Saint John in Malta
Naval organization of the Order of Saint John
Naval functions of the Order of Saint John
Maltese population, 1530-1798
Conclusions
Appendix A. The Malta Project : underwater survey of Malta
Appendix B. Gran Caracca di Rodi in history and iconography
Appendix C. Reconstruction of an eighteenth-century third-rate ship : San Giovanni Basttista
Appendix D. Summary of major naval undertakings and naval forces of the Order, 1523-1798