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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Eagle, Cross, and Lion: Historiography and Orthodox Cypriot Identities
Chapter 1: "Under Heavy Storm and Tempest": The Coming of the Latins
Chapter 2: "In Our Hearts and Our Churches We Do as We like": Living under the Bulla Cypria
Chapter 3: "In Your Light We Shall See Light": The Controversy over Palamite Hesychasm
Chapter 4: "Bounds Set between Us and You": Boundary Maintenance in a Period of Transformations
Chapter 5: "Render unto Caesar": Cypriot Orthodoxy under the Venetians
Coda: The Reed and the Olive Tree
Appendices
Appendix I: Confession of Faith of the Monks of Kantara and a Synaxary on Their Memory
Appendix II: Encyclical Letter to the Cypriots by Patriarch Kallistos I of Constantinople
Appendix III: Florilegium on Purgatory and the Afterlife by Francis the Cypriot, OFM
About the author
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou earned his PhD in history at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has taught at the University of Cyprus.
Summary
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.
