Dr. Ilya Berkovich completed his PhD thesis at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was a recipient of a college research studentship. He has published items on Crusader and eighteenth-century history. He has won the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History. Berkovich currently serves as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich.
Synopsis
Sponsored by the Alfred Mizzi Foundation. In this lecture, the speaker will present some of the newest discoveries from Jerusalem’s twelfth-century compound of the Knights Hospitaller. In additional to recently-uncovered archaeological material, the discussion will be informed by contemporary eyewitness accounts from the Crusader period, the original surviving regulations of the Hospital of St John and the unpublished papers of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century explorers.
Speaker: Dr Ilya Berkovich
The Headquarters, the Hospital and the Latrine: New Discoveries from the Hospitaller Compound in Jerusalem
Speaker: Dr Ilya Berkovich
April 25, 2018 @ 18:30
6:30 pm — 7:30 pm (1h)
Auberge d’Aragon, Independence Square, Valletta
The Headquarters, the Hospital and the Latrine: New Discoveries from the Hospitaller Compound in Jerusalem
