This book will appeal to all those interested in Crusading Orders, the History of the Crusades, as well as the History of Venice, Malta, and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Age.

Victor Mallia-Milanes is Professor of History, former Head of the Department of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta. His special research interests include Venice, the Hospitaller Order of St John, Malta, and the Mediterranean in the early modern period, on which he has published extensively. His publications include Venice and Hospitaller Malta 1530-1798: Aspects of a Relationship; Hospitaller Malta 1530-1798; In the Service of the Venetian Republic; Lo Stato dell'Ordine di Malta, 1630; and Valletta: Malta's Hospitaller City, and Other Essays.

'Corsairs Parading Crosses: The Hospitallers and Venice, 1530-1798' (1994) / 'The Birgu Phase of Hospitaller History,' (1994) / 'Malta and Venice in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Consular Relations' (1975-76) / 'Poised between hope and infinite despair: Venetians in the port of XVIIIth-century Malta' (1997) / 'The Price of Hospitaller Crusading Warfare in the Eighteenth Century: the Maltese Consulate on Zante' (1998) / 'The Hospitaller Receiver in Venice: A late seventeenth-century document' (2002) / 'A Man with a Mission: A Venetian Hospitaller on Eighteenth-Century Malta' (2008) / 'Towards the End of the Order of the Hospital: Reflections on the Views of Two Venetian Brethren, Antonio Miari and Ottavio Benvenuti' (2012) / 'Society and the Economy on the Hospitaller Island of Malta: An Overview' (2013) / 'Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and Fear of the Plague: Culturally Conflicting Views' (2017) / 'A Living Force of Continuity in a Declining Mediterranean: The Hospitaller Order of St John in Early Modern Times' (2017) / 'Property, piracy, and pugnacity: Reflections on Venice's attitude towards the Order of the Hospital in Early Modern Times' (2019) / 'Vol veder di aver Brandizo ovvero Malta' : A Hospitaller Odyssey from Rhodes to Malta, 1523-1530' (2022) / 'Venice, Hospitaller Malta, and the Little Soldier from Ajaccio: A Semi-Autobiographical Rhapsody' (2019) / 'Hospitaller Baroque Culture: The Order of St John's Legacy to Early Modern Malta' (2008).