Cyprus: Society And Culture 1191-1374 (Medieval Mediterranean)

Author: Chris Schabel Angel Nicolaou Konnari
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: mediterranean, medieval, culture, society, cyprus
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $126.00
ISBN-10: 9004147675
ISBN-13: 9789004147676

Book Description:

This volume is the only scholarly work in English examining the multicultural society of the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus during the first two centuries of Frankish rule following the conquest of the Byzantine island during the Third Crusade. In this global synthesis based on original research, often in manuscripts, six chapters by acknowledged experts treat the main ethnic groups – Greeks and Franks – and the economy, religion, literature, and art of a frontier society between Byzantium, the papacy, the Crusader States, and the Islamic world.

Cyprus, also home to Armenians, Syrians (Maronites, Melkites, Jacobites, Nestorians), Jews, Muslims, and others, offers an excellent opportunity to study the fascinating issues of identity construction, acculturation, and assimilation in a ethnically and religiously diverse society.


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