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Malta’s rich archival repositories offer a fascinating lens into the unique historical events that require investigation below the surface to bring out a clearer picture of the event and its context. Some, particularly issues of a demographic nature (but not only), benefit from bringing to bear on them a mathematical treatment. Among these topics, which will be treated in the lecture, are the ransack of Gozo in 1551, the census of 1241, the crisis of the 1480s, and the exile of Muslims to Lucera ca. 1245.📚 About the Speaker:
Stanley Fiorini is Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the University of Malta, and former Head of the Mathematics Department of the same University. His interest in Maltese History has led to a number of publications of sole- or joint-authorship including Santo Spirito Hospital at Rabat, Malta (1989), The ‘Mandati’ documents at the Archives of the Mdina Cathedral, Malta: 1473-1539 (1993), the two-volume work Mdina. The Cathedral City of Malta (1996) and recently, Tristia ex Melitogaudo. Lament in Greek verse of a XIIth-century exile on Gozo (2010) and The Parchments of the Mdina Cathedral Archives, Malta: 1420-1959 (2019). He has, furthermore, initiated the new series entitled Documentary Sources of Maltese History, to which he has contributed, solely or jointly, the first eighteen volumes. He has also edited various publications of the Malta Historical Society, of which he was Honorary President.
🗣️ The lecture will be delivered in English.
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This lecture is kindly supported by The Alfred Mizzi Foundation.
DISCLAIMER: The mathematical formulas on the poster were not drawn on the actual document/s.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
217, St. Paul St, Valletta, VLT, Malta
