Hospitaller Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth Century

Ray Gatt has a professional medical background and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Malta. His thesis on the Grand Hospitaller Priory of Messina became the foundation for the current book with the same title. He has also written various papers on the Hospitallers which have been included in edited books, as well as on another Hospitaller Order, that of St Lazarus.

• Chapter 1Introduction and HistoriographyChapter 2The Hospitaller European CommanderyChapter 3The Hospitaller Sicilian PatrimonyChapter 4Management of the Sicilian Commandery in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 5The State of the Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth CenturyChapter 6The Sicilian Hospitaller Priory - the Religious CultChapter 7The Hospitaller Prioral Mansion in MessinaChapter 8The Insurrection of Messina of 1674 and the Hospitaller Grand PrioryConclusionBibliography Appendix AAn Outline of the Grand Priory of Messina in the Seventeenth CenturyAppendix BLingua d’Italia Tomo 1Appendix CThe Church of the Hospitallers’ San Giovanni Battista in Messina, 1604 - 1749.