IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 720: Cyprus: An Island between Empires
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Aysu Dinçer, Department of History, University of Warwick |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Matthew Harpster, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 720-a | Across Mediterranean Horizons: Cyprus as 'Middle Ground' between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 650-850 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 720-b | Between the Holy Roman Empire and the Holy Land: Frederick II, Alice of Champagne, and the Ibelin Family (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Economics - General, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session looks at Cyprus and discusses the changing nature of its connections to the rising and falling empires of the Mediterranean. The first paper focusses on the transition between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (c. 650-800), when the island found itself on the border between the Byzantine Empire and the rising Umayyad caliphate. The second paper looks at the first half of the 13th century, when the ruling family and the elite of Cyprus had strong links with the Holy Land, but also had to contend with the excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's designs in the East. The third paper situates Cyprus in the Mediterranean imperial environment from the 16th to the 18th century, and attempts to understand the position of the island in the Ottoman bureaucratic mind. |