In a message dated 01/15/2000 5:49:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> For me one of the great moments of the last 1000 years was the siege of
> Malta in 1565. It represented the point where two expansionist medieval
> power blocs, backed up by their medieval religious systems, rubbed noses
and
> agreed to differ (although close-up it may not have seemed like that to
> those unfortunate enough to be on the island at the time, or indeed at
> Lepanto some years later! ) . Now I found out recently that there is a full
> page picture in BN Lat.Ms.6097 of two Knights Hospitaller visiting the
> Grand Turk as ambassadors
> before the siege of Rhodes in 1480. It's an amazing picture for what it
> represents. Art reflecting life; reality tackling dogma; politics and
> religion; representatives of the two major mediterranean medieval religions
> actually talking to each other, &c &c. Shouldn't this fall within the scope
> of your list?
>
I'd like to know more about Malta, because I'm interested in Marlowe's Jew of
Malta. I can understand why the play isn't set in England. But why Malta
instead of, say, Venice?
pat sloane
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