NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MALTA PUBLIC LECTURES SERIES 2018-2019
URBAN LANDSCAPES
Coordinated by Mevrick Spiteri and Maroma Camilleri'CITIES, HARBOURS
AND ARTEFACTS: transformations of an EARLY MODERN LANDSCAPE'
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LECTURE 2 // Monday 17th December 2018 at 18:30
'Studying Ceramics in Early Modern Malta – Archival and
Archaeological Sources' by Nathaniel Cutajar
The study of EARLY MODERN SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN MALTA HAS NOT RELIED
EXTENSIVELY ON MATERIAL CLASSES OF EVIDENCE OTHER THAN THOSE PROVIDED
BY ARCHIVAL RECORDS OR THE FINE ARTS. This LECTURE WILL EXPLORE SOME
OF THE WAYS IN WHICH ALTERNATIVE MATERIAL CLASSES - in this case
specifically archaeological CERAMICS - can bring new insight to EARLY
MODERN SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES. It also looks at the way
archival and archaeological evidence can be brought together in an
osmotic movement that mixes, without ever fully merging these two
radically different strands of information.
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Nathaniel Cutajar has worked at the Museums Department, at the
Superintendence of Cultural Heritage and is currently the Curator
(Medieval) at the National Museum of Archaeology. His interests
include medieval archaeology, cultural heritage studies and
archaeological methodology. He has studied the ceramic productions in
MALTA FROM THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD FOCUSING
ON TYPOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ON ASPECTS OF LONG DUREE SOCIAL
AND ECONOMIC PROCESSES OF CHANGE.
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