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Simon MERCIECA
Publications
I) Books
1) Gio Antonio Vassallo’s Storia di Malta; Questing after a National Soul (Malta
Historical Society, 2004).
2) The Knights of Saint John in Malta: A Brief History (Bonacchi, 2005).
3) Dictionnaire Historique de la Corse, under the direction of Antoine Laurent
Serpentini, (Albania, 2006).
4) Navigation du Savoir, Etude de septs arsenaux historiques de la Mediterranee, ed., R.
Ghirlando, S. Mercieca, M. Renault. (Malta, 2006).
5) Mediterranean Seascapes, ed. S. Mercieca, (Malta, 2007).
6) Malta and Mazzini, Proceedings of History Week 2005, ed. Simon Mercieca, (Malta,
2007).
II) Articles
7) ‘Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Malta. The Story of the Prepaud Family’, in
Consolati di Mare and Chambers of Commerce. Proceeding of a Conference held
at the Foundation for International Studies (Valletta, 1998), C. Vassallo ed.,
(Malta, 2000), pp. 185-197.
8) ‘Amicitia Extenditur ad Extraneos, Marriage Law and the Concept of Citizenship
(1563-1789)’, Journal of Mediterranean Studies. History, Culture and Society in
the Mediterranean World, Vol.10, Number 1&2 (2000), pp.151-171.
9) ‘Le recit de la guerre de Troie par Homere et la Chronique du Siege de Malte de 1565
par Francesco Balbi da Coreggio: quelques observations sur un Heritage
socioculturel commun’,
in Mediterranees, Revue du Centre d'Etudes
Internationales sur la Romanite, No. 29 (2001), pp. 51-62.
10) ‘Il-Kultura ta’ l-Ikel fl-Epoka Moderna’, in Malta: Esplorazzjoni – Dghajsa Karti,
D. Massa ed., (Malta, 2001), pp. 73-110.
11) ‘From a Rural Livelihood to a Cosmopolitan Vocation; Tracing the Origins of the
Gafa' Family’, in Melitensium Amor, Festschift in honour of Dun Gwann
Azzopardi, (Malta 2002), pp. 278 - 288.
12) ‘The Spatial Mobility of Seafarers in the Mediterranean: A case study based on Status
Liberi Documentation (1581-1640), in Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Vol. 12,
No. 2 (2002), pp. 385-410.
13) ‘The Possessions of Titles and Ways of Address in Early Modern Malta’, in
Humanitas, Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Vol. II (2003), pp. 41-60.
14) ‘Les Ports Maltais et Leur Héritage Maritime’, in Acteurs Locaux et Patrimoine
Immatériel: le rôle des Villes Historiques de la Méditerranée, ed. by Djamil
Aissani, Giovanni Lobrano and Abdelkader Sid Ahmed, (ISPROM-Publisud,
2004), pp. 215-230.
15) ‘An Unaccounted for Maritime Heritage? Towards another Interpretation of the
Maltese Place-name ‘L-Isla’ in De Triremibus a festschrift in honour of Mr.
Joseph Muscat’, Ed. T. Cortis and T. Gambin, (Malta, 2005), pp. 721-746.
16) ‘Understanding the Present through Navigating the Past’, in La Navigation du Savoir
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Réseau des arsenaux historiques de la Méditerranée, Actes du Colloque
Premières Journées internationales du patrimoine maritime méditerranéen 27 au
30 mars 2003, Villefranche-sur-mer, (2005), p. 40.
17) ‘The Production of Salt in Malta during Early Modern Times’, La Navigation du
Savoir Réseau des arsenaux historiques de la Méditerranée Actes du Colloque
Premières Journées internationales du patrimoine maritime méditerranéen 27 au
30 mars 2003, Villefranche-sur-mer (2005), pp. 122-138.
18) ‘Models of Migration from the Past: Maltese Settlement in Italy: 16th-19th Centuries’,
in Africa e Mediterraneo Cultura e Societa, No. 54 (2006), pp. 59-61.
19) ‘The 1581 Catastrophe or The Story of Two Poor Families’ Affliction’, in Celebratio
Amicitiae, ed. Maroma Camilleri and Therese Vella, (Malta 2006), pp. 11-19.
20) ‘Joe the Maltese Black Slave’ in The New Arrivals, (A comic Story for the Magazine
“The New Arrivals”).
21) ‘Malta: Les arsenaux maritimes au cours des années aperçu de leurs dimensions
urbaines’, La Navigation du Savoir Étude de sept arsenaux historiques de la
Méditerranée, edited by Simon Mercieca, Robert Ghirlando and Renault, (Malta,
2006), pp. 170-225.
22) ‘Were Frontier Lands in the Central Mediterranean “Isolated Worlds”? The Island of
Malta as a Case Study’, in Frontiere del Mediterraneo, Seminario Internazionale
di Studi (Cagliari, 10-12 ottobre 2002) ed. Maria Eugenia Cadeddu and Maria
Grazia Mele, (Pisa, 2006), pp. 129-148.
23) A number of entries for the Dictionaire historique de la Corse, edited by Antoine
Luarent Serpentini published by SARL, les Editions ALBIANA. 2006.
24) ‘Introduction: Conjectures on a Mediterranean Road Map through the Salon of the
Navigation du Savoir Project’, in Mediterranean Seascapes, S. Mercieca, ed.,
(Malta: 2007), pp. xi–xviii.
25) ‘«La Navigation du Savoir Project» and the Search of Malta’s Late Medieval Shipshed’, in Mediterranean Seascapes, S. Mercieca, ed., (Malta: 2007), pp. 3-40.
26) ‘Verso una ricerca di nuova collettivitá per un’arte individualista, in
LibrolibrodArtistaLibero3, Catalogue of the Terza edizione biennale del Libro
d’Artista, (Italy: 2007).
27) ‘Fonti religiose per lo studio della famiglia a Malta’, Popolazione e Famiglia nel
Mezzo Giorno Moderno Fonti e nuove Prospettive d’Indagine, ed. Giovanna da
Molin, (Cacucci Editore – Bari, 2007), pp. 125-164.
28) ‘Malta, Un avamposto di nostalgia cavalleresca’, Alle Origini dell’Europa
Mediterranea. L’Ordine dei Cavalieri giovanniti, ed. Antonella Pellettieri (CNR,
Italy, 2007), pp. 145-177.
29) ‘Introduction á la démographie historique maltaise: Une vue generale des source et
des documents conservés dans les archives’, Histoire des familles, de la
démographie et des comportements, eds. Jean- Pierre Poussou and Isabelle RobinRomero (PUPS, 2007), pp. 183-200.
30) ‘Vale of Tears: An Analysis of Piri Reis’ Maps and Descriptions of Malta and their
Relevance to the Early History of Hospitaller Malta’, in The Order of St. John
from Jerusalem to Malta: Some Aspects and Considerations, ed. G.
Cassar, (Malta, 2007) pp. 19-34.
31) ‘Marriage Prospects in Early Modern Malta: The Integration of Venetian Subjects in
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an Alien Country’, in Melita Historica, Vol. XIV, no. 3 (2006), pp. 303-324.
32) ‘Giulio Cassarino (1588-1637) A Biographical Outline’, Caravaggio and Paintings
of Realism in Malta, ed. C. Degiorgio and K. Sciberras (Midseabooks, 2007), pp.
145 – 149.
33) ‘The Making of a Multimedia Pole of Mediterranean Seascapes and the Use of the
Internet for the Building of a Database of Historic Cities’, in Une Stratégie de
développement durable pour les villes historiques de la Méditerraneé et leurs
territoires, Avant propos de Monsieur Leoncio Collado Rodriquez and under the
directio of Giovanni Lobrano, José-Luis Andrés Sarasa et Abdelkader Sid Ahmed,
(ISPROM – Ville De Lorca – Publisud, Sassari – Lorca – Paris, 2007), pp. 435446.
34) ‘The Scoglio Ingrato: Archaeology, History, and Mazzinian Beliefs in Malta through
the views of Francesco Crispi’, in Malta and Mazzini, Proceedings to History
Week 2005, ed. Simon Mercieca (Malta, 2007), pp. 61- 94.
III) Learned Articles in Newspapers and Magazines
35) ‘S.O.S Bormla’, In-Nazzjon Taghna, 22-v-1993.
36) ‘Bormla: Intervent Barbariku Iehor’, It-Torca, 18-vii-1993.
37) ‘Knisja Miftuha Berah ghall-Annimali’, in Il-Mument, 4 and 11 March 2001.
38) ‘Alleanza Religjuza ma’ l-Annimali”, in Il-Mument, 11 March 2001.
39) St. Augustine College Magazine
40) ‘Giuseppe Preziosi”, The Sunday Times, April 25, 2004, p. 18.
41) ‘Mazzini and Malta’, The Sunday Times, November 7, 2005, p. 56.
42) ‘An Extravaganza of Old Church Music’, The Sunday Times, November, 14, 2005.
43) “The Political Life of a Maltese Patriot”, The Malta Independent on Sunday, 8
January 2005, pp. 28-29, 48.
44) ‘Early Music for Palm Sunday at Bormla’, The Malta Independent, April 9, 2006.
45) “The Admiralty Dockyard and Wooden Artefacts at Cospicua”, The Sunday Times of
Malta, 10 September 2006, pp. 56-57.
46) “The role of the humanities in communicating Europe and building regional
networks”, The Sunday Times, December 31, 2006, p. 14.
47) “Italian Architect to Lecture in Malta”, The Sunday Times, March 4, 2007, p. 55.
48) “APS Bank sponsors restoration of one of Malta’s oldest portable organs”, The
Sunday Times, March 25, 2007, p. 43.
49) “Cospicua: the need for a sustained effort”, The Sunday Times, September 16, 2007,
Classified, pp. 70-71.
50) “Ottoman history: from Controversy to Mutual Understanding”, The Sunday Times,
October 14, 2007, pp. 58-59.
IV) Forthcoming Articles
- ‘The Recipe Book of Michele Marceca: An Unique Culinary Experience for EighteenthCentury Malta’, I dolci dei Cavalieri di Malta; il ricettario di Michele Marceca di
Malta 1748, edited by Luigi Lombardo, Carmelo Spadaro di Passanitello.
(Forthcoming).
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- “Contextualizing the Past: Pictorial Memory and Landscape in Gozo”, an article which
will appear in a festschrift in honour of Mr. Paul Mizzi and which is being edited
by Mr. Louis Scerri.
- ‘A Strategic Management Experience: The Malta – Armenia Nexus’. It will be
published by the University of Genoa as part of the proceedings of a seminar held
at Yerevan in Armenia in connection with a Tempus Project.
- Travelling in the Central Mediterranean in Early Modern Times: The Networking of a
North-South Axis. (To appear in a forthcoming book being edited by Prof. Victor
Mallia Milanes and entitled The Mediterranean, History, Culture and Civilisation,
Vol. 2)
- ‘La differenza nella differenza. Vecchi modelli e nuove dialettiche per il proseguimento
del dialogo interreligioso’ to appear in the journal, Mneme Ammentos Semestrale
di Studi e Richerche, which is published by the Istituto EuroMediterraneo, Scuola
Internazionale di Formazione Ricerca e Specializzazione, ISR.
- ‘Ħal Kirkop fis-Seklu Tmintax: Ħarsa Analitika lejn Ġrajjietu’ to be published in a book
by Dr. H.C.R. Vella about Ħal Kirkop.
- ‘Ħal Kirkop fl-Ewwel Nofs tas-Seklu Dsatax: il-Bidu ta’ Żminijiet Diffiċli’, to be
published in a book by Dr. H.C.R. Vella about Ħal Kirkop.
- ‘A Cose Nuove Uomini Nuovi’: The Sceberras Family and the Italian Risorgimento’ will
be published in the proceedings of the acts Malta, Garibaldi and the Labour
Market.
- ‘Rambling Thoughts on Sustainable Development: The Port Cities of Malta’ to be
published by MTA as part of the acts of the conference Il Uomo e il Suo Porto:
Archeologia Industriale del Mare e Beni Ambientali.
- ‘The Outcry of Music in the Configuration of International Events that led to the
takeover of Malta by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798’ to be published by the
University of Szeged in Hungary in part of the conference acts entitled "Famous
Historical Events, Famous Historical Characters".
- ‘The Birgu Painting of St. Alphonse Maria De Liguori: A Journey in the History
of Popular Religion in Malta’ to be published in the Treasures of Malta, a journal
published by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti.