This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyond-regions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinople-as well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.
This study examines Cypriot society from the crusader conquest of the island in 1191 to the Ottoman conquest of 1571. The author analyzes the ethnic, cultural, and religious landscape of Cyprus and argues that Cypriots adopted a nonviolent, covert form of anti-Latin resistance.
In this book, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou reconstructs the motif of the Byzantine warrior hero in Cypriot folk songs. Kyriacou uses this motif as a focus in examining Cyprus's memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters.
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