The Great Siege of Malta

This superb new account of the siege emphasises the crucial importance of the siege while at the same time putting it in a far wider context. While seen as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more nuanced than that - both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Suleiman the Magnificent had conquered and subsumed regions from Hungary to the Persian Gulf; Philip II was building an empire in America and Asia.

Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness stories, Marcus Bull gives a vivid sense of the period''s technologies, values and assumptions. It was a grim world built on the labour of many thousands of disposable galley-slaves, shockingly brutal forms of warfare and religious absolutism. But it was also a world filled with the most extraordinary new discoveries and ideas. Both these worlds come together in the siege and in this book.<>

About the author

Marcus Bull is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina. He has written extensively on Europe from the tenth to the sixteenth century with a particular emphasis on crusading in all its many forms.

Product details

• Authors: Marcus Bull, Bull Marcus
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241523650
• ISBN: 978-0-241-52365-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Malta, History, European History, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Middle Eastern history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, c 1500 to c 1600, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, c 1560 to c 1569, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General