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Religious Colonialism in Early Modern Malta: Inquisitorial Imprisonment and Inmate Graffiti

Author(s) -

Russell Palmer

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

international journal of historical archaeology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 1573-7748

pISSN - 1092-7697

DOI - 10.1007/s10761-016-0359-0

Subject(s) - imprisonment , prison , colonialism , holy see , context (archaeology) , graffiti , institution , politics , history , perspective (graphical) , law , sociology , criminology , political science , ethnology , art , archaeology , visual arts

Early modern Malta was governed by three institutions—the Order of St. John, the Bishopric, and the Roman Inquisition—which all ultimately answered to the Holy See. By focusing on the institution under the most direct Papal control, the inquisition, this paper seeks to explore the role of imprisonment in furthering the Vatican’s cultural and political control on the island. Through analyses of the prison cells and the inmate’s graffiti, I argue that the inquisition’s ability to imprison and negate the spectacle of public suffering was crucial to the Vatican’s colonial position in Malta

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