Famagusta maritima : : mariners, merchants, pilgrims and mercenaries /

Famagusta maritima : : mariners, merchants, pilgrims and mercenaries / / edited by Michael J. K. Walsh.

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Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus. This historic harbour city was at the heart of the Crusading Lusignan dynasty, a possession of both Genoa and Venice dur...

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Walsh, Michael J. K., 1968-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Maritime History 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • “Old Ships [Sail] Like Swans Asleep … for Famagusta and the Hidden Sun” / Michael J. K. Walsh
  • A Holy Site for Sailors: Our Lady of the Cave in Famagusta / Michele Bacci
  • Placed in the Midst of Enemies? / Tomasz Borowski
  • Between the Papal Court and the Islamic World: Famagusta and Cypriot Merchants in the Fourteenth Century / Mike Carr
  • The Role of Famagusta in Genoese Maritime Routes between the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Antonio Musarra
  • Starting Point of the Genoese Thalassocracy in Cyprus: An Unpublished Roll of Knights and Squires Imprisoned in Famagusta in 1374 / Pierre-Vincent Claverie
  • The Export of Soap and Olive Oil from the Port of Famagusta in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Nicholas Coureas
  • Maritime Slave Trading in Fourteenth-Century Famagusta / Ahmet Usta
  • Sea Defenses in the Renaissance: Famagusta in Comparative Venetian Perspective / Dragoş Cosmescu
  • Power, Peril and Maritime-Trade Wish Fulfillment in Thomas Dekker’s The Pleasant Comedy of Old Fortunatus / William Spates
  • The Harbor of Famagusta during the Ottoman Period in French Travelogues and Consular Archives / Lucie Bonato
  • The Development of Famagusta Harbor during the British Colonial Period (1878–1960) / Asu Tozan
  • Famagusta on Cyprus and the Sea: Hotel Architecture, Urban Development and Tourism during the British Colonial and Early Postcolonial Period / Marko Kiessel
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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