Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Malta and the Mediterranean Sea
  • An architectural innovation to segregate and control the space
  • Covered-balconies 'gallarija'
  • the source of the model
  • Maltese gallarijia
  • review of the literature
  • The development of Islamic empire & expansion into the Mediterranean
  • Muslim cities
  • the management and control of the space
  • Islamic architecture and the development of Maltese 'gallarijia'
  • The control of the space and Muslim women
  • The Normans in Malta and the end of Muslim rule
  • Valletta, the new city and the new capital
  • The Valletta, the nuns & the prostitutes
  • The status of women in Europe
  • The status of women during the Knights & the function of the gallarija
  • The cultural legacy of the Knights and domestic violence
  • The Knights in Malta
  • magistral palace and the first gallariji
  • The successful adaptations of boxed-balconies in Malta
  • Building gallarija
  • diffusion of knowledge & transfer of ideas
  • The end of hostility, concluding remarks & recommendations.