Books Co-editor with Mark Aloisio, Storja 2015, (Malta: Malta University Historical Society, 2016). Co-editor with Joan Abela and Carmel Vassallo, Proceedings of History Week 2013: Second Colloquium on Spanish-Maltese History, (Malta: The Malta Historical Society, 2015). Guest editor with Victor Mallia-Milanes, Simon Mercieca and David Mallia, Melita Historica, Vol.XVI No.2, (Malta Historical Society, January 2014). Co-editor with Joan Abela and Krystle Farrugia, Proceedings of History Week 2011, (Malta: The Malta Historical Society & MidSea Publications, 2013). Co-editor with Simon Phillips (University of Cyprus), Islands & Military Orders, c.1291- c.1798, (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). Nobility, Faith and Masculinity: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580-c.1700, (London and New York: Continuum, 2011). Research papers and chapters in books Enslaved Bodies, Enslaved Souls: Knights of Malta and Muslim Slaves, Schiavitù del corpo, schiavitù dell anima. Chiesa, potere politico e schiavitù tra Atlantico e Mediterraneo (sec.xvi-xviii), Emmanuel Comolbo [Ed.], (Milan: Accademia Ambrosiana, forthcoming). With Joan Abela, The Island Order State on Malta and its harbour, c.1530-c.1624, The Harbour of Malta, Carmel Vassallo and Simons Mercieca [Eds.], (Malta: forthcoming). Valletta: Some Reflections on the Early Modern City, Valletta, Maroma Camilleri [Ed.], (Malta: Malta Libraries & Heritage Malta, forthcoming). The Crusades: A Maltese Perspective, Crusades of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, Johannes Meyer-Hamme and Felix Hinz [Eds.], (Berlin: forthcoming). An analytical description of the Instruttione lasciata da Monsigr Galeazzo Marescotti in the Palazzo Falson Historic House collection, Maltese Archives: A Selection, Charles Farrguia [Ed.], (Malta: forthcoming). With Simone Azzopardi, Colonialism in the Mirror : An Analysis of Representations of British Colonialism in School History Textbooks in Malta before and after Independence, Colonial Representations in History Textbooks, Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Joaquim Pires Valentim (eds.), (forthcoming).
With Franco Davies, The St James of the Cavalier: Identity, Heritage, Legacy, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity - 15th Anniversary Publication, (Malta: St James Center for Creativity, forthcoming). Rituals and Politics in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean: The Hospitaller Island Order State of Malta c.1611-c.1715, The Struggle for Supremacy: The Mediterranean 1453-1699, George Cassar and Noel Buttigieg [Eds.], (Malta: Sacra Militia Foundation, forthcoming). The Order of St John and Power-Projection through Rituals in the Harbour of Malta, Proceedings of the IV MMHN Congress in Barcelona 7-9 May 2014, (forthcoming). Ritual, Memory and Landscape of the Hospitaller-Maltese Island Order State: The Possesso of the Vascelli in 1705, Treasures of Malta, No.68, XXIII:2, (Malta, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 2017), 28-39. Negotiating Encounters, Controlling Spaces: Official meetings between Grand Masters and Inquisitors in Valletta and Vittoriosa, The Roman Inquisition in Malta and Elsewhere, Margaret Abdilla Cunnigham, Kenneth Cassar and Godwin Vella [Eds.], (Malta: Heritage Malta, 2017), 110-119. Everyday Life during the Hospitaller Period: Sources and Approaches, Melita Historica, 16:4, (2017), 167-86. Preface to Francesco Russo, Un ordine, una città, una diocese. La giurisdizione ecclesiastica nel principato monastic di Malta in età moderna (1523-1722), (Canterano: Aracne editrice, 2017). With Simone Azzopardi, Outlines of Maltese History and Ġrajjet Malta: An Analysis of Representations of Colonialism in Maltese History Textbooks, Melita Historica, 17:1, (2017), 110-39. A Space of Land and Sea: The early modern Harbour of Malta, Malta: Land of Sea, Sandro Debono [Ed.], (Malta & Brussels: Heritage Malta, BOZAR Exhibition Centre and Midsea Books, 2017), 35-44. Where would we be without our friends?, guest curator entry for the Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum (Mdina) Book of the Month series, July 2017. The Hospitallers and the Grand Harbour of Malta: Culture and Conflict, The Military Orders: Culture and Conflict, Jochen Schenk and Michael Carr [Eds.], (London: Routledge), 177-86. With Simone Azzopardi and Laurent Licata, Symbiotics of History and Social Psychology: Understanding Social Representations of History in Europe, Xjenza Online, Vol.3, (2015), 36-40, DOI: 10.7423/XJENZA.2015.1.05.
With Franco Davies, Remembering 1565: The role of memory in the urban fabric of the Island Order State of the Hospitallers, Maroma Camilleri [Ed.], Besieged. Malta 1565, (Malta: Malta Libraries and Heritage Malta, 2015), 147-58. Eroj, Antieroj u Eroj Nieqsa fl-istorja ta Malta, Immanuel Mifsud [Ed.], L-(Anti)eroj: Min Huma? X inhuma? Fejn Huma?, (Malta: Department of Maltese Studies, University of Malta Junior College and Klabb Kotba Maltain, 2015), 1-18. The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta A General History of the Order of Malta, Przemsław Deles and Przemsław Mrozowski [Eds.], The Orders of St John and Their Ties With Polish Territories, (Warsaw: The Royal Castle in Warsaw Museum, 2014), 15-44. Introduction, Melita Historica, Vol.XVI No.2, (Malta: Malta Historical Society, January 2014), 11-20. The Maltese Islands and the Religious Culture of the Hospitallers: Isolation and Connectivity c.1540s-c.1690s, Emanuel Buttigieg and Simon Phillips [Eds.], Islands and Military Orders, c.1291-c.1798, (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), 39-51. Knights, Jesuits, the Inquisition and Carnival in seventeenth-century Malta, The Historical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, (2012), 571-96. Politics and power in Grand Master Verdalle s Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem (1588), The Military Orders: Politics and Power, Peter Edbury [Ed.], (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), 153-64. Clash of Civilizations, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: An Analysis of Christian- Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean, in Developing EU-Turkey Dialogue. A CLIOHWORLD Reader, Gudmundur Hálfarson and Hatice Sofu [Eds.], (Pisa: PLUS, 2011), 1-18. Family life and neighbourliness in Malta (c.1640-c.1760): Some preliminary observations based on evidence from the Magna Curia Castellaniæ, Arkivju, Vol.1, (2010), 47-58. Chastity, Bachelorhood and Masculinity in early modern Europe: The case of the Hospitaller Knights of St John (c.1520-c.1650), in Paths to Gender: European Historical Perspectives on Women and Men, Carla Salvaterra and Berteke Waaldijk [Eds.], (Pisa: PLUS, 2009), 209-24. The Pope wants to be the ruin of this Religion The Papacy, France and the Order of St John in the seventeenth century, in Symposia Melitensia, No.5, (2009), 73-84.
Protests and Revolt in the History of Malta, in The International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500 to the present, Immanuel Ness [Ed.], (Malden MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2009), 2182-7. Knighthood, Masculinity and the Other: The Hospitaller Knights of Malta in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, in Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives, Heather Ellis and Jessica Meyer [Eds.], (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 281-303. Social Relationships in mid-sixteenth-century-malta: An Analysis through Notary Juliano Muscat s Register R376/11, in Storja 2008-2009, (Malta, 2009), 47-66. (with Catherine Tabone) Why did the Ottomans besiege Malta in 1565?, in Sacra Militia, Vol.7, (2008), 23-8. Encounters with the Other : Hospitallers and Maltese before the Great Siege of 1565, in The Military Orders: On Land and by Sea, Judi Upton-Ward [Ed.], (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), 229-34. Growing Up in Hospitaller Malta (1530-1798): Sources and Methodologies for the History of Childhood and Adolescence, in Bridging the Gaps: Sources, Methodology and Approaches to Religion in Europe, Joaquim Carvahlo [Ed.], (Pisa: PLUS, 2008), 129-46. Childhood and adolescence in early modern Malta (1565-1632), in Journal of Family History, Vol.33, No.22, (April 2008), 139-55. Clash of Civilizations, Crusades, Knights and Ottomans: An Analysis of Christian- Muslim Interaction in the Mediterranean, in Religion and Power in Europe: Conflict and Convergence, Joaquim Carvalho [Ed.], (Pisa: PLUS, 2007), 203-20. Growing up in Hospitaller Malta (1530-1798): An Overview, in Religion, Ritual and Mythology: Aspects of Identity Formation in Europe, Joaquim Carvalho [Ed.], (Pisa: PLUS, 2006), 97-114. The Land, the Sea, and the Eight-Pointed Cross: Economy and Material Life in mid- Sixteenth Century Malta, in Sacra Militia, Vol.4, (Malta, 2005), 53-60. Church Bells and Street Fighting: Birkirkara and Don Joannes Matteo Camilleri (1545 57), in Storja 2003-2004, (Malta, 2003), 34-44. Il-Maskil fl-istorja: Irġiel tas-seklu Sittax, in Il-Ġens Ilum, (Malta, 27 September 2003), 25. Reviews
Vetustior Glorio. Ġrajjet l-irħieb ta Santu Wistin fir-rabat u fl-imdina c.1300-2000, by Mark Cauchi and Simon Mercieca; The Malta Independent, 2016. Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era: Entrepôts, Islands, Empires, edited by John Watkins and Kathryn L. Reyerson; Journal of Early Modern History 2015; doi: 10.1163/15700658 12342471. Magdalene Nuns and Penitent Prostitutes, Valletta, by Christine Muscat [book review]; E. Buttigieg, The Journal of Baroque Studies, Vol.1 No.3, (2015). Guardianship, Gender and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain, Grace E. Coolidge, (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), English Historical Review, 2014; doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceu168 On-going: Reviewer for www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com. Elemosina per 3 messe: Tales from the Grave Funerary Ritual and Attitudes towards Death in 18 th century Malta, Journal of the Monastic Military Orders, No.2, (2009), 115-22. Editorial responsibilities Member of the Editorial Board, Symposia Melitensia, University of Malta Junior College, 2011-2012 Member of the Editorial Board, Melita Historica, 2011-2015. Member of the Editorial Board, Storja, on-going. Member of the editorial board for The Military Religious Orders Series: History, Sources and Memory, general editors Jochen Burgtorf and Nicholas Morton, Routledge, on-going. Evaluator and reviewer of a special issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies (Brill, 2015). The theme was The Jesuits and Gender: Body, Sexuality and Emotions, edited by Mary Laven. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00204001 Historical advisor to an EU COST Action entitled Cyberparks, co-ordinated by Dr Philip Bonanno, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, to develop an App for onsite learning related to the Great Siege of 1565.