A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus
Author : George Jeffery
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Cyprus
ISBN :
A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus
Author : George Jeffery
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Cyprus
ISBN :
Book Description
A History of the Crusades, Volume IV
Author : Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1977-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780299068240
Book Description
This work contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. The six volumes stand as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.
The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage
Author : Michael J.K. Walsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 3319485024
Book Description
This book explores seven centuries of change in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean world through the rise and fall of Famagusta’s medieval Armenian Church. An examination of the complex and its art escorts the reader from the era of the Crusades in Lusignan Cyprus, through the rise and fall of the Venetian, Ottoman and British Empires, to the political stasis of the present day. The Armenian church was a home for displaced villagers during the post-independence era, became a military storage facility post-1974 and eventually fell into abandonment once again. This study represents a pioneering history of the Armenian community in Famagusta and a probing analysis of the art and architecture it left behind. It is also a permanent record of the long-term engagement and commitment of Nanyang Technological University Singapore, the World Monuments Fund, and the Famagusta Municipality to protect this precious site, under extremely challenging circumstances.
Historical Dictionary of Cyprus
Author : Farid Mirbagheri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1538111586
Book Description
As a major tourist destination and the most eastern member of the European Union, housing two British Sovereign Bases and sitting at the intersection of three continents, Cyprus attracts international attention in more ways than one; hence the complex web of converging and conflicting outside interests that has marked and scarred the country’s history. Since 2009, when the previous edition appeared, further big changes have occurred with the United Nations-led efforts to bring about a settlement to the Cyprus problem as well as the latest on the exploration of hydrocarbon in the eastern Mediterranean seabed. Historical Dictionary of Cyprus, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, architecture, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Cyprus.
Heritage Under Pressure – Threats and Solution
Author : Michael Dawson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789252474
Book Description
Heritage under Pressure examines the relationship between the political perspective of the UK government on 'soft power' and the globalising effect of projects carried out by archaeologists and heritage professionals working in the historic environment. It exemplifies the nature of professional engagement and the role of the profession in working towards a theory of practice based on the integrity of data, the recovery and communication of information, and the application of data in real world situations. Individual papers raise complex and challenging issues, such as commemoration, identity, and political intervention. A further aim of the volume is to illustrate the role of professionals adhering to standards forged in the UK, in the context of world heritage under pressure. Papers also contribute to the emerging agenda developing as a result of the re-orientation of the UK following the Brexit vote, at once emphasising the global aspiration of the Uk’s professional archaeological body – the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists – in relation to the global reach of UK academic practice. By implication the volume also addresses the relationship between professional practice and academic endeavour. The volume as a whole contributes to the emerging debate on the authorised heritage discourse and provides an agenda for the future of the profession.
Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection
Author : Marinos Ioannides
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030730433
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2020, held virtually in November 2020. The 37 revised project papers and 30 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 326 submissions. The papers are on topics such as digital data acquisition technologies in CH/2D and 3D data capture methodologies and data processing; remote sensing for archaeology and cultural heritage management and monitoring; interactive environments and applications; reproduction techniques and rapid prototyping in CH; e-Libraries and e-Archives in cultural heritage; virtual museum applications (e-Museums and e-Exhibitions); visualisation techniques (desktop, virtual and augmented reality); storytelling and authoring tools; tools for education; 2D and 3D GIS in cultural heritage; and on-site and remotely sensed data collection.
George Jeffery
Author : George Jeffery
Publisher :
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9789963364503
Book Description
The Harbour of all this Sea and Realm
Author : Michael J.K. Walsh
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9633860644
Book Description
The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of the Lusignan, Genoese and Venetian history of the main port city of Cyprus, a Mediterranean crossroads. The essays contribute to the understanding of Famagusta's social and administrative structure, as well as the influences on its architectural, artisan, and art historical heritage from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. We read of crusader bishops from central France, metalworkers from Asia Minor, mercenaries from Genoa, refugees from Acre, and traders from Venice. The themes of the city's diasporas and cultural hybridity permeate and unify the essays in this collaborative effort. Some of the studies use archival sources to reconstruct the early stages of appearances of various buildings. Such research is of vital importance, given the threat to Famagusta's medieval and early modern heritage by its use as a military base since 1974.
Dei gesta per Francos
Author : Michel Balard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351945580
Book Description
Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians. Although also well-known as one of the most distinguished historians of Burgundy, he has through publications which have been appearing for over half a century established himself as the greatest living scholar working on crusading and the Latin East. His book on twelfth-century Tripoli, published in 1945, is still the standard work on the county. In the 1950s he, and Joshua Prawer, provided a revolutionary approach towards the constitution and institutions of the kingdom of Jerusalem. He went on to pave the way for an entirely new understanding of the kingdom of Cyprus. In the 1960s he was one of a few historians who were sign-posting a more empathetic view of the ideology of crusading and the motivation of crusaders, and he developed his ideas further in recent monographs on Saint Louis and on the crusades in general. His work on Catholic missions to Asia and the role of the papacy in those enterprises is generally regarded as setting standards which few can approach. To celebrate his eightieth birthday thirty-nine colleagues have contributed articles in fields which themselves illustrate Professor Richard’s breadth of interest: the crusades, the military orders, and the Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland and the island of Cyprus.
