Cyprus Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Ca. 600-800): An Island in Transition

ISBN-13: 9780367885434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Luca Zavagno

Opis

Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique ‘golden age’ (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine ‘reconquista’ (post-965 AD) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase was characterized, supposedly, by the division of the political sovereignty between the Umayyads and the Byzantine

Spis treści

1. Mattia Pascal and the Name of Cyprus

2. Seeing the Unseen: A Brief Overview of Cypriot Historiography

3. The Mousetrap of Methodology

4. A History of Cyprus in the Early Middle Ages

5. Urban vs. Rural: The Many Sides of the Cypriot Coin

6. An Insular Economy in Transition

7 Aftermath and Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Luca Zavagno received his BA degree in History from the University Ca’Foscari, Venice; he completed his PhD studies at the University of Birmingham on the society, culture, economics and politics of Byzantine cities. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University. Dr. Zavagno is the author of many articles on the Byzantine and early Medieval Mediterranean and of the co-edited volumes Islands of Eastern Mediterranean: A History of Cross Cultural Encounters and People (2014), Goods on the Move: Merchants, Networks and Communication Routes in the Medieval and Early Modern Era (2016) and of Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2009).