Numbers in Aid of History: Numerical Solutions to Some Historical Problems

Speaker: Professor Emeritus Stanley Fiorini
Language: English

About the Lecture:
Malta’s rich archival repositories offer a fascinating lens into the unique historical events that require investigation below the surface to bring out a clearer picture of the event and its context. Some, particularly issues of a demographic nature (but not only), benefit from bringing to bear on them a mathematical treatment. Among these topics, which will be treated in the lecture, are the ransack of Gozo in 1551, the census of 1241, the crisis of the 1480s, and the exile of Muslims to Lucera ca. 1245.

Kindly RSVP by emailing ou******@na******.org. Following the lecture, we warmly invite you to the courtyard to enjoy some light refreshments.

This lecture is kindly supported by The Alfred Mizzi Foundation.