In this paper, information concerning Byzantine Malta is gathered and discussed anew along with the relevant literature. Special attention is devoted to the relationships with Islam as they chiefly appear from a 12th-century poem by an anonymous courtier of Roger II who had been banished to the island for obscure reasons, and beseeched thereby Admiral George of Antioch to set him free from exile. The medieval history of the bishopric of Malta is reassessed, especially vs. the purported antiquity of the bishopric of Gozo, in fact the result of a misreading of that poem.
Byzantina Melitensia / G. Fiaccadori. - In: ACME. - ISSN 0001-494X. - 53:(2010), pp. 337-347.
Byzantina Melitensia
G. FiaccadoriPrimo
2010
Abstract
In this paper, information concerning Byzantine Malta is gathered and discussed anew along with the relevant literature. Special attention is devoted to the relationships with Islam as they chiefly appear from a 12th-century poem by an anonymous courtier of Roger II who had been banished to the island for obscure reasons, and beseeched thereby Admiral George of Antioch to set him free from exile. The medieval history of the bishopric of Malta is reassessed, especially vs. the purported antiquity of the bishopric of Gozo, in fact the result of a misreading of that poem.
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