Research Catalog

Title

Cyprus and the balance of empires : art and archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion / edited by Charles Anthony Stewart, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr ; organized by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute.

Publication

Boston, MA : American Schools of Oriental Research, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stewart, Charles Anthony
• Davis, Thomas W., 1956-
• Carr, Annemarie Weyl
• Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus), sponsoring body.

Description

xviii, 268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 29 cm.

Series Statement

• American Schools of Oriental Research Archeological reports ; number 20
• CAARI monograph series ; 5

Uniform Title

• American Schools of Oriental Research archaeological reports ; no. 20.
• Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute monograph series ; v. 5.
• Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute monograph series ; 5.

Subjects

• Cyprus > Antiquities
• Cyprus > Civilization
• Cyprus > Relations > Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine Empire > Relations > Cyprus
• Material culture > Cyprus > History > To 1500
• Cyprus > Religious life and customs
• Art, Cypriot > History
• Architecture > Cyprus > History > To 1500

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The significance of the Basilica at Agioi Pente of Yeroskipou (Demetrios Michaelides) -- A brief history of Byzantine archaeological research on Cyprus (Thomas W. Davis & Charles Anthony Stewart) -- Christianity in Cyprus in the fourth to seventh centuries (Claudia Rapp) -- The Troodos in twilight : a provincial landscape in the time of Justinians (Marcus Rautman) -- The north-south divide in Byzantine Cyprus : some evidence from lead seals and coins (D.M. metcalf) -- The Katalymata ton Plakoton : new light from the recent archaeological research in Byzantine Cyprus (Eleni Procopiou) -- Chypre et les Arabes avant les Croisades à la lumière des sources Arabes (M. Tahar Mansouri); English abstract -- The development of Byzantine architecture on Cyprus (Charles Anthony Stewart) -- Cypriot icons before the twelfth century (Sophocles Sophocleous) -- The stuff of life : the material culture of everyday living on Middle Byzantine Cyprus (11th-12th centuries) (Maria Parani) -- Appendix: Compositional analysis of a copper-alloy dish of the Middle Byzantine period in the A. Pitsillides Collection (Vasiliki Kassianidou) -- The program of the Panagia Pergaminiotissa : a narrative in perspective (Annemarie Weyl Carr) -- Decoding Cyprus from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance : discordant visions, saints, and sacred topography (Tassos Papacostas) -- Index of historic persons and places -- Index of subjects, monuments, events, and topical.

Call Number

JFF 14-1077

ISBN

• 9780897570732 (acid-free paper)
• 0897570731 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2014013742

OCLC

878050906

Title

Cyprus and the balance of empires : art and archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion / edited by Charles Anthony Stewart, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr ; organized by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute.

Publisher

Boston, MA : American Schools of Oriental Research, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American Schools of Oriental Research Archeological reports ; number 20

CAARI monograph series ; 5

American Schools of Oriental Research archaeological reports ; no. 20.

Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute monograph series ; v. 5.

Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute monograph series ; 5.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Stewart, Charles Anthony, editor.

Davis, Thomas W., 1956- editor.

Carr, Annemarie Weyl, editor.

Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (Nicosia, Cyprus), sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

JFF 14-1077