The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy, Sicily and Malta transformed the Mediterranean, turning ambitious mercenaries into rulers of a powerful medieval kingdom.

Knights of Malta: From Hospitaller Rule to the Great Siege — how a medieval order turned Malta into a fortress and resisted Suleiman in 1565.

The Hospitallers began as a Jerusalem hospital order in 1099 and, through crusading wars and strategic island bases, became a sovereign military power in Rhodes and Malta.