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Venetian Letters
(1354-1512)
From the archives of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and other Cypriot collections

Edited and translated with an Introduction by Benjamin Arbel

The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, 2007, ISBN: 978-9963428618, pp.212, p/b, CY£22.00/ €37.59

This publication presents 20 letters written by Venetian merchants between 1354 and 1512, and contain information relating to commercial activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus played decisive role in trading due both to its strategic position - it was only Christian stronghold under Venetian control in the eastern Mediterranean until it conquest by Ottomans in 1571 - and the products produced on the island itself, which included wheat, sugar and cotton

Eastern Approaches to Byzantium

Antony Eastmond

Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Ashgate, 2001, ISBN: 0754603229, pp.297, h/b, d/j, CY£45.00

The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of Byzantine policy on its eastern borders, new interpretations and new materials on Byzantine relations with the Georgians, Armenians and Seljuqs, as well as studies on the writing of history among these peoples. Presenting research from Russia and Georgia as well as Europe and the USA, the contributors stress the interaction and interdependence of all the peoples along this frontier zone, and consider the different ways in which the political and cultural power of Byzantium was appropriated. They provide important comparative evidence for the relationship between local and Byzantine cultures, and open up new avenues for research into the history of eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus. The volume arises from the thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at the University of Warwick in March 1999.

L'ORDRE DU TEMPLE EN TERRE SAINTE ET A CHYPRE AU XIII SIECLE
/The Order of the Temple in Holy Land and Cyprus in Thirteen Century/

Pierre-Vincent Claverie

Centre de Recherche Scientifique, Sources et etudes de l'histoire de Chypre, LIII, Nicosie 2005, Tome I-III, ISBN: 9963080944, pp. 412+504+680, h/b, d/j, CY£55.00


 

Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191–1571

David Nicolle (Illustrator: Adam Hook)

Osprey Publishing, 2007, ISBN: 9781841769769, pp. 64, p/b, CY£12.10

The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats: Mamluks, Catalan mercenaries, Ottoman Turks, Byzantines, independent Islamic states, Timur-i-Lenk, and widespread piracy, to name but few. The resulting fortifications - some inherited from conquered the territories of the former Byzantine empire, some built from scratch - were very different to those found in the Middle East. This superbly illustrated book explores their design, development and fate in detail, documenting the rich architectural heritage of this region and its complex history.

The Churches of Pelendria
History - Architecture - Art

Costas Gerasimou - Diomedes Myrianthes - Kyriakos Papioakeim - Christodoulos Hadjichristodoulou

Holy Bishopric of Lemesos, 2005, ISBN: 9963649572, pp.165, p/b, CY£15.75

 

 

Cyprus, the Franks and Venice, 13th-16th Centuries

Benjamin Arbel

Ashgate, 2000, ISBN: 0860788245, pp.346, h/b, CY£70.95

The role of Cyprus as a meeting-point of different civilisations and as a focus of international contention are key themes in this volume. The history and society of the island kingdom under Frankish, then Venetian rule are examined in a wider Mediterranean perspective, while the author's extensive use of unpublished archival sources opens up new perspectives on the history of Latin expansion in the eastern Mediterranean. These in turn lead to a re-evaluation of central issues related to Cypriot history and to the Venetian presence in the area. One set of articles deals particularly with social and demographic history, looking at the relationship between the various social and ethnic groups and at intercultural contacts between Greeks and Latins. Other studies are concerned with colonial policies, contacts with the Muslim Levant, and with ecological issues.

Byzantium, Latin Romania and the Mediterranean

David Jacoby

Ashgate, 2001, ISBN: 086078844X, pp.350, h/b, CY£68.25

The studies included in this latest volume by Professor Jacoby deal with demographic, social, economic and institutional issues in the history of Byzantium and Latin Romania (the Byzantine territories conquered by the Latins after the Fourth Crusade), as well as with Mediterranean trade between the 10th and the 15th century. Special attention is devoted to the following subjects: migration from Muslim countries and the West into the Empire and, after the Fourth Crusade, into former Byzantine territories; the social and economic impact of the encounter between Greeks, Jews and Westerners in Constantinople, Asia Minor and Greece; institutional and economic continuity and change in Latin Romania; trade and shipping between Byzantium, Egypt and the major Italian maritime cities; and last, to silk in Byzantium and the Mediterranean: raw materials and textiles, production and trade.

Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean
Byzantium, the Crusader Levant, Egypt and Italy

David Jacoby

Ashgate, 2005, ISBN: 0860789802, pp.364, h/b, CY£63.00

The customary treatment of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to the mid-15th century emphasizes the predominance of western merchants and the commercial exchange of spices and eastern raw materials for western woollens and other finished products. The studies in this collection, the sixth by David Jacoby to be published in the Variorum series, adopt a different perspective. They underscore the economic vitality of various countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean, their industrial capacity, the importance of exchanges between them, and the important contribution of the merchants based in that region to trans-Mediterranean trade. They also illustrate the role of hitherto neglected commodities, such as timber, iron, silk and cheese, in that trade.

Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion

David Jacoby

Ashgate, 1989, ISBN: 0860782492, pp.348, h/b, CY£73.50

In the present collection of articles Professor Jacoby pursues the lines of research which characterised his previous work. He deals with the Western expansion into the eastern Mediterranean, and with the meeting between the Latin West, Byzantium and the Muslim East that took place there during the later Middle Ages, but with a shift in emphasis towards the Crusader states of the Levant and their cultural history. These aspects are to the fore in the first articles, which are concerned with the cultural views of the Crusaders, as expressed in their literature, in relation to those of their homelands in the West. Professor Jacoby then examines the urban development of Acre, for long the principal focus of commercial activity in the Latin East, and the rise of the Cypriot emporium of Famagusta. A constant theme is that of the role of Venice, and several studies deal specifically with the sustained expansion of its interests after the 4th Crusade, and with the interaction of the Venetians with the peoples of the Aegean and the Byzantine empire.

Venice Cyprus
Catalogue of the Exhibition organized within the framework of the Italian Cultural Month 2006, 2 October - 5 November

The Leventis Municipal Museum of Lefkosia, 2006, ISBN: 9963575552, pp.50, p/b, CY£5.25

National Archive of Venice, Marciana Library, Civic Museums Venice.


Icones de Chypre
Diocese de Limassol 12e-16e siecle

Sophocles Sophocleous

Center de Patrimoine Culturel, Nicosie, 2006, ISBN: 9963616313, French language only, pp.544, 233 colour reproductions of icons, CY£47.25

Medieval Cyprus
A Guide to the Byzantine and Latin Monuments

Gwynneth der Parthog

Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2006, ISBN: 9963642233, pp. 402, p/b, CY£13,65

Gwynneth der Parthog's acclaimed guide to the rich medieval world of Cyprus. New updated and expanded edition.

In-depth
coverage of the island's many churches, monasteries, castles, palaces, bridges and other monuments.
Detailed ground plans and specially drawn maps.
Beautiful line drawings of the monuments.
Colour photo section, showcasing both art and architecture.
A rich supplement on the coinage, pottery, heraldry, music, and travellers and chroniclers of the period, plus usuful chronologies and an extensive book list.
Practical advice on travel to even remotest sites.

Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099-1325)

Marwan Nader

Ashgate, 2006, ISBN: 075465687X, pp.225, h/b, CY£49.90

This is the first book devoted to the study of burgesses in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099–1325). It offers a comprehensive assessment of the contributions made by the non-feudal class to the development of legal and commercial institutions in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Dispensing with the commonly held view that burgesses had only marginal influence, evidence is presented to illustrate how the existence of a 'middle class' was essential to the ambitions of the kingdoms' leaders.

A systematic examination of all relevant contemporary source material – charters, law-books and narrative accounts – sheds light on how serfs and freemen, originating from diverse regions of Europe, were able to organise themselves into a class whose status set them apart from non-Latin Christians and Muslims. The study considers at length the different ways in which burgess legislation was formulated; traces the gradual development of the Cour des Bourgeois, the court of burgesses, in terms of its composition and competence; describes in detail the burgess laws of Acre and Nicosia which related, for example, to marriage and inheritance; and defines the special characteristics of a type of property known as a borgesie which was mostly but not exclusively in the hands of burgesses.

Byzantine Architecture in the Troodos Mountains
Through Drawings, Sketches and Watercolours by Andreas Phillipou, Architect

Nicosia, 2006, ISBN: 9963912109, pp.198, bi-lingual (Greek and English), h/b, d/j, CY£30.00

This album of watercolours, pencil and ink drawings of the timber-roofed churches in the Troodos mountains, is a welcome addition to the study of this unique architectural style, which is found only in Cyprus. Neither in Greece nor in the Balkans, not even in Asia Minor do we come across similar examples of this singular timber constructions...The insight and sensitivity which the author shows in handling both the description and the representation of these humble churches, which contain unique treasures of frescoes and icons, as well as exquisite timber iconostases, are indeed remarkable. (From the Note by Athanasios Papageorgiou, Byzantinist)

George Boustronios
A Narrative of the Chronicle of Cyprus 1456-1489
translated from the Greek by Nicholas Coureas together with an anthology of Greek texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries relating to Cyprus and translated by Hans Pohlsander

Cyprus Research Centre, Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus LI, Sources for the History of Cyprus, Volume XIII
Edited by Paul W. Wallace and Andreas G. Orphanides
Nicosia, 2005, ISBN: 9963080928, pp.252, h/b, d/j, CY£9.50
 

Twelve Times in Nicosia
Nicosia, Cyprus, 1192-1570: Topography, Architecture and Urban Experience in a Diversified Capital City

Panos Leventis

Cyprus Research Centre, Text and Studies in the History of Cyprus XLIX, Nicosia, 2005, ISBN: 963080952, pp.438, h/b, d/j, CY£54.50

This is a publication of a Ph.D. dissertation, completed between 2000 and 2004 at McGill University in Montreal.

 

Cyprus
Society and Culture 1191-1374

Angel Nicolaou-Konnari and Chris Schabel, eds.

Brill, Leiden-Boston / Medochemie, Cyprus, 2005, ISBN: 9004147675, pp.408, 32 illustrations, h/b, EUR 78.00

For orders outside Cyprus contact Brill Academic Publishers.

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.

Readership: All those interested in Byzantine and Modern Greek history, Crusades, medieval Mediterranean commerce, Greek-Latin Church relations, medieval law and historiography, Byzantine and Crusader art, and ethnic identity and cultural assimilation.

Angel Nicolaou-Konnari, Ph.D. (1999), Cardiff, teaches medieval history at the University of Cyprus. Besides the recent diplomatic edition of the Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas (2003), she is currently completing research on The Encounter of Greeks and Franks in 13th-Century Cyprus.
Chris Schabel, Ph.D. (1994), Iowa, is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cyprus. He has published extensively on Frankish Cyprus and on the intellectual history of the later Middle Ages, including Theology at Paris 1316-1345 (2000).

LACRIMAE CYPRIAE
Les larmes de Chypre

Brunehilde Imhaus

Department des Antiquites, Nicosie, 2004, ISBN: 9963364373 (set), large format, h/b, d/j, CY£73.50

Volume I: Catalogue et planches photographiques.
Volume II: Etudes et commentaires. Planches de dessins.
 

 

Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades

Annemarie Weyl Carr

Ashgate, Variorum Collected Studies Series, London, 2005, ISBN: 0860789365, pp.399, includes 205 b&w illustrations, h/b, CY£66.95

Professor Carr is concerned here with the devotional arts of the Byzantine world in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The first set of studies deals with groups of illuminated manuscripts of the twelfth century, mostly connected with the Eastern Mediterranean, while the second focuses directly on Cyprus and its rich Orthodox visual heritage in the later Middle Ages. As Byzantium’s strongest bridgehead to the Crusades and its heir in the Levantine balance of power, the island of Cyprus retains an exceptionally rich legacy of Byzantine culture and artifacts. At the same time, as the seat of the most enduring Crusader state, it offers unparalleled testimony to the interplay of Greek and Latin cultural traditions as they accommodated and resisted one another under the pressure of Mamluk, Mongol, and Ottoman expansion.

Contents: Introduction. Part I Cyprus and The 'Decorative Style': Provincial Byzantine manuscripts from the 12th century; Two illuminated manuscripts at the Monastery of St Neophytos: issues of their Cypriot attribution; Gospel frontispieces from the Comnenian period; Illuminated musical manuscripts: notes on the late 12th century; Diminutive Byzantine manuscripts. Part II Art in the Kingdom of Cyprus: Correlative spaces: art, identity and appropriation in Lusignan Cyprus; Art and the court of Crusader Cyprus; Icon-tact: Byzantium and the art of Cilician Armenia; A Palaiologan funerary icon from Gothic Cyprus; Thoughts on seeing Christ Helkomenos: an icon from Pelendri; Byzantines and Italians in Cyprus: images from art; Index.

Annemarie Weyl Carr is University Distinguished Professor, Division of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Crusades - Myth and Realities
ΣΤΑΥΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ - ΜΥΘΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ

Yiannis Toumazis, Anthony Pace, Maria Rosaria Belgiorno, Sophia Antoniadou, Eds.

Pierides Foundation, Cyprus, 2004, ISBN: 9963575471, pp.247, p/b, large format, bi-lingual (Greek and English), CY£31.50

Catalogue for the exhibition "Crusades - Myth and Realities" organized in the framework of the programme "Crossings: Movements of People and Movement of Cultures - Changes in the Mediterranean from Ancient to Modern Times" held in Nicosia from 1 December 2004 until 6 February 2005. It contains 10 scholarly essays on Crusades following introduction, map and chronological table. All 116 objects displayed are described in detail in this lavishly illustrated volume.

Avvisi (1570 - 1572)
The War of Cyprus

Catherine Koumarianou, Ed.

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, 2004, ISBN: 9963428304, pp.201, p/b, large format, CY£27.30

The book contains a number of Western news bulletins which were published in various cities of Europe in the sixteenth century and which informed the public of the events which took place in Cyprus in the period 1570 - 1571 in connection with the invasion of the Ottomans. These texts come from the Collection of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, on the history of Cyprus.

Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus 1050-1310

Jonathan Riley-Smith

Palgrave Macmillan, Digital Printing 2002 having identical content to that of previous printing (1967), ISBN: 1403906157, pp.596, p/b, CY£47.25

Written by a brilliant scholar, this book is the first volume of a major work, which makes full use of the very rich documentary material still surviving and relates it to the evidence of the chronicles. Oriental sources are not disregarded: use is made of Arabic material and the latest archaeological discoveries in the Near East. The author has concentrated upon the Order as an institution in the crusader states and as a powerful international religious corporation. He considers its growth to power, its participation in the politics of the Latin settlement in the East, its organisation, its position as an exempt Order of the Church, its properties and its methods of administration as a landlord in feudal states. For the first time, the Order of St John is treated in a way that is neither hostile nor romantically partisan: and the author's conclusions differ from those of other historians. In his description of the Hospitallers' policies, the place they occupied in the government of Latin Syria, their privileges and the way they lived, he shows how it was that they - individuals as well as the corporate body - played such a significant part in the history of the Christian East in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. This book is important to all those interested in the Knights of St John, the international Orders of mediaeval Christendom or the extra-ordinary states established by western Europeans on the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean.

Kingdoms of the Crusaders
From Jerusalem to Cyprus

Peter W. Edbury

Ashgate, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 1999, ISBN: 0860787923, h/b, CY£60.40

This volume brings together a series of papers spanning a quarter of a century of research into the history and institutions of the Latin East from the late twelfth century to the end of the fourteenth. The crusaders established two kingdoms in the Levant. Christmas Day 1100 saw the coronation of the first king of Jerusalem in the aftermath of the First Crusade. The Lusignans came to power in Cyprus in 1192 as the Third Crusade was drawing to its close, and they ruled there as kings from 1197 until the 1470s. How these regimes fared in the face of external enemies and internal pressures and how the westerners settled in the East structured their legal, governmental and social affairs are the twin themes of this collection.

The Church of the Panaghia tou Arakos at Lagoudhera, Cyprus: The Paintings and Their Painterly Significance

David and June Winfield

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C., 2003, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXXVII, ISBN: 0-88402-257-9, pp. 476, 309 b/w illustrations, 50 line art, 36 colour figures, CY£68.00

The monastery church at Lagoudhera, Cyprus, is notable for an almost complete decoration of Byzantine wall paintings in good condition, dated to 1192. These paintings present the finest surviving example of the elegant linear style of the second half of the twelfth century. The painted decoration constitutes a great collective work of art.

The book explains the language of Byzantine church decoration, methods of plastering, proportional rules, system of colouring, and working methods of the Byzantine painter.

Church of Saint Lazarus in Larnaka
History, Architecture and Art of the Church of Saint Lazarus in Larnaka


Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou

Nicosia, 2004, ISBN: 9963-8151-2-X, pp.95, CY£3.15

An Illustrated Guide - Pilgrim's Companion for the Church of St. Lazarus in Larnaka, Cyprus containing accounts of worship pf St. Lazarus, accounts of oral tradition regarding his stay in Larnaka, architectural and historical data and Cyprus customs and traditions related to St. Lazarus.

 

The Church of Our Lady of Asinou

Christodoulos Christodoulou – Diomedes Marianthefs

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation - Holy Bishopric of Morphou, in collaboration with Department of Atniquities, Nicosia, 2002, ISBN: 9963-42-804-5, pp.47, p/b, CY£3.00

Also available are guides in: Greek, French, German and Russian.

This volume is the first in the series of seven Guides to the Byzantine Monuments of Cyprus which belong to the UNESCO World Heritage. The Church of Our Lady of Asinou, the katholicon, or main church of the Monastery of Phorvia, is one of the most important Byzantine monuments in Cyprus in terms of its architecture and wall-painting decoration.

The Monastery of the Holy Cross (Stavrovouni)

Monastery of the Holy Cross Publications, Cyprus, 1998, ISBN: 9963615031, pp.62, p/b, CY£3.00

This booklet is dedicated to the history and art of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, colloquially known as the Monastery of Stavrovouni (Stavrovouni = Mountain of the Cross), being one of the earliest monasteries on the island, founded in the early Byzantine era by St. Helena. 

 

The Church of Our Lady Angeloktisti at Kiti, Larnaca
A Visitor’s Guide

Andreas M. Foulias

Nicosia, 2004, ISBN: 9963-9007-1-2, pp.39, p/b, CY£3.00

The Church of Our Lady Angeloktisti at Kiti is a religious and cultural monument of an international level, particularly renowned by its famous mosaic of Our Lady Angelosktisti, which is considered as one of the most important works of its genre from the Early Christian world.

ΔΙΑ ΧΕΙΡΟΣ
(By hand)

Video tape and DVD produced by Paschalis Papapetrou in cooperation with Cyprus Tourism Organization, Anastasios G. Levendis Foundation, S.P.E Strovolos and Holy Archbishopric of Cyprus. The film shows ten Byzantine churches situated in Troodos region, which have come under the project of UNESCO World Heritage listings. Russian traveller Barsky visited Cyprus in 18th century and left beautiful drawings and written information about the monasteries and churches, which has become an invaluable source. This material has been used extensively in this film.

Screenplay: Paschalis Papapetrou; Research-texts: Loukas Panagiotou; Photography: Nicos Avraamides; Music: Michalis Mozoras; In the role of Barsky: Costas Tsopelas

Video tape: CY£12.00 / DVD: CY£14.00

Colours of Medieval Cyprus
Demetra Papanicola-Bakirtzi
The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia 2004, pp.165, colour plates, large format p/b, ISBN 9963 560 63 6, £26.25

With an accompanying text by Demetra Papanicola-Bakirtzi, as well as essays by Sir David Hunt and Eleni Loizides, this is essentially a catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Hellenic Centre in London of the medieval ceramic collection of the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Both book and exhibition provide a vivid and illuminating insight into an exciting period of Cyprus’ history as well as an understanding of daily life in the island.

 

Byzantine Lead Seals from Cyprus
D.M. Metcalf
Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia 2004, pp.598, h/b, ISBN 9963 0 8082 0, £44.65

The book describes all the available Byzantine lead seals from Cyprus, from the 6th-7th centuries through to 1192 and beyond. Some 1,400 are placed on record, and over 100 are exposed as modern forgeries. The genuine seals constitute a veritable Who’s Who of the top people in Byzantine Cyprus, including the senior administrative officials, such as archons, consuls, judges, and imperial tax collectors, as well as naval and military commanders, and the archbishops and bishops, together with notables form the leading families of the urban elite.

The Pedoulas
Byzantine Museum

Christodoulos Hadjihristoulou

Pedoulas, 2000, ISBN: 9963-42-073-7, pp. 20, p/b, CY£2.00

The Pedoulas Byzantine Museum exhibits icons and holy objects dating from 13th to the 20th century. The booklet is available in English, French and Greek language.

 

The Seas of Cyprus
Maps, Harbours and Ships
13th – 19th Century

Θάλασσες της Κύπρου
Χάρτες, Λιμάνια και Καράβια
13ος – 19ος αιώνας

Anna G. Marangou

Nicosia, 2003, ISBN: 9963-36-800-X, bi-lingual (English and Greek), h/b, d/j, pp.261, CY£50

This commemorative publication, issued on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Cyprus Port Authority, is devoted to the harbours of Cyprus and their chequered history, as this is reflected in mediaeval, Isolaria and Portolan maps depicting the Mediterranean. Special reference is also made to the kind of ships that visited Cyprus during the Middle Ages and the role the island has played in the greater scheme of shipping and trading activity as a necessary port of call for food, water and supplies.

Heraldry in Cyprus

George Markou

Nicosia, 2003, ISBN: 9963-640-01-X, pp.172, p/b, CY£10.00

The author, a Custodian of Ancient Monuments at the Cyprus Department of Antiquities, is fascinated with the history of coat of arms. This book is the result of systematic research to locate as many of the coat of arms left in Cyprus by mediaeval noble occupiers and visitors as possible. It is an excellent introduction to reading a coat of arms, and the reader will find here a long list of heraldic rules and rough sketches, including all vital details.

 

Cyprus Jewel in the Crown of Venice

An exhibition sponsored by the Anastasios G. Levendis Foundation, organized on the occasion of the 22nd International Symposium of the International Collectors Society, 15 October – 15 November 2003-10-16

The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation – The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, Nicosia 2003, ISBN 9963-560-58-X, pp.230, 6 historical essays pp.21-89 and catalogue of the exhibition pp.93-222, bibliography, index of personal names, large format, p/b, CY£20

Ladies of Medieval Cyprus and Caterina Cornaro

Leto Severis

Foundation of Kostakis and Leto Severis, Nicosia, 1999, ISBN: 9963810209, pp.197, large format, p/b, £15 (also Greek edition)  [sole distributor]

This work illustrates the roles and personalities of various important women in the medieval history of Cyprus, concentrating on the wives, daughters and mistresses of the Lusignan kings, placing particular emphasis on the last Queen, Caterina Cornaro. Severis tends towards a literary treatment of her subject matter, although without distancing herself from historical events. The book is also available in Greek, and both language editions include dozens of stunning full-page colour plates.

 

Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus: A Guide to the Monuments

Gwynneth der Parthog 

Interworld Publications, London, 1995, First Edition, pp.288, p/b, £15.70 o/p

Beginning with a historical survey of the island, including post-Byzantine art in Cyprus, the text is illustrated with various maps, black and white sketches and diagrams and dozens of colour photographs. Designed as a guide to help “independent-minded visitors to explore Cyprus a little further”, Der Parthog bridges the gap between detailed specialist publications and general guides.

 

The Chronicle of George Boustronios 1456-1489

Translated by R. M. Dawkins

Melbourne University Press, Australia, 1964, pp.84, p/b, £15  [sole distributor]

Published by the University of Melbourne Cyprus Expedition, this is the first English language translation of the Greek chronicles of George Boustronios, which ontinue the narrative of the earlier work of Leontios Makhairas, beginning in 1456, two years before the death of King John II, to 1489, the year of the cession of Cyprus to Venice by the last Queen, Catherine Cornaro. The text is illustrated with dozens of black and white plates and several maps.

The Painted Churches of Cyprus

Andreas Stylianou and Judith A.Stylianou

A.G.Leventis Foundation, Nicosia, 1997, pp.527, over 300 illustrations, h/b, dust jacket, £22

Andreas and Judith Stylianou are internationally recognised as great experts on the subject of rural painted churches from the 6th to the 18th century, in Cyprus and throughout the area of surviving Byzantine culture, having devoted a lifetime of research to it. This volume is the culmination of their long and careful study, which has finally restored the work of Cypriot painters to its proper place among the cultural achievements of the world. It is the authors’ aim, while providing the fullest scholarly documentation of the whole range of Byzantine mural painting in Cyprus, to give lovers of art in general an insight into the special merits of this particular school of art.

Hospitallers - The History of the Order of St John

Jonathan Riley-Smith

THe Humbledon Press, London, 1999, ISBN: 185285197X, pp.152, numerous illustrations, p/b, £8    

Professor Riley-Smith traces the eventful history of the oldest specialised Christian charitable movement from its foundation in 1079 as a pilgrim hospital in Jerusalem by lay brothers to its work by volunteers all over the world today. Jonathan Riley-Smith is a leading expert on the history of the crusades. He is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge and Librarian of the Order of St John.

A Dragoman's House
The House off Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios in Nicosia

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Publishers, Copenhagen, 1993, ISBN: 8787136082, pp.110, p/b, CY£12.70

Amadi (Francesco), Cronaca di Cipro, Arch.Makarios III Foundation, Nicosia, 1999, Italian language only, pp.534, h/b, £

Bryer A.A.M. and Georghallides G.S., Eds., The Sweet Land of Cyprus, Papers given at the Twenty-Fifth Jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, Cyprus Research Centre – The University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, Nicosia, 1993, pp.454, 17 proceedings and 16 summaries in English and French, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £28

Coureas N. and Riley-Smith J., Eds., Cyprus and the Crusaders, Papers given at the International Conference “Cyprus and the Crusades”, Nicosia, 6-9 September, 1994, Cyprus Research Centre – Society for Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Nicosia, 1995, pp.538, 24 proceedings in English, Greek and French, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £28

Estienne de Lusignan, Description de Toute L'Isle de Cypre, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, 2004, ISBN: 9963836135, pp.640, h/b

Estienne de Lusignan, Chorograffia, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia, 2004, ISBN: 9963836143, pp.316, h/b

Kehagioglou (Georghios), Ed., The Chronicle of Cyprus of Georghios Voustronios, The Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia, 1997, Greek language only, pp.579, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £30

Pavlides (Andros) and Erkolani (Anna), Eds., The History of Cyprus of Georghios Voustronios, Philokypros Publications, Nicosia, 1998, Greek language only, pp.485, h/b, large format, £30

Pavlides (Andros), Ed., The Chronicle of Georghios Voustronios, Philokypros Publications, Nicosia, 1989, Greek language only, pp.196, h/b, large format, £20

Pavlides (Andros), Ed., The Chronicle of Leontios Macheras, Philokypros Publications, Nicosia, 1995, Greek language only, pp.589, 13 colour illustrations, h/b, large format, £30

Pelosi (Olimpia), Ed., Lusignan’s Chorography and Brief General History of the Island of Cyprus (A.D. 1573), Sources for the History of Cyprus, Volume X, Greece and Cyprus Research Centre, New York, 2001, pp.249, p/b, large format, £33

Pohlsander (Hans A.), Ed., Greek Text of the Fourth to Thirteenth Centuries, Sources for the History of Cyprus, Volume VII, Greece and Cyprus Research Centre, New York, 1999, pp.195, p/b, large format, £29

Roberts (Louis), Ed., Latin Texts from the First Century B.C. to the Seventeenth Century A.D., Sources for the History of Cyprus, Volume VIII, Greece and Cyprus Research Centre, New York, 2000, pp.272, p/b, large format, £33

xxx, The Assizes of the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus, Cyprus Research Centre, Texts and Studies in the History of Cyprus, XLII, Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia, 2002, pp.408, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £10

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