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Nobility, Faith and Masculinity
Emanuel Buttigieg
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The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700
出版A&C Black, 2011-04-21
主題History / Europe / Medieval
ISBN14411024349781441102430
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DVqd_gb2tmMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This 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 Order.