TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metcalf,D.M.
TI  - Byzantine Cyprus, 491-1191
SN  - 9789963081158
PY  - 2009///.
CY  - Nicosia: 
PB  - Cyprus Research Centre, 
KW  - Byzantine antiquities
KW  - Coins, Byzantine
KW  - Cyprus
KW  - Civilization
KW  - History
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Κύπρος
KW  - Ιστορία
KW  - Βυζαντινή περίοδος, 330-1191
KW  - Πολιτισμός
KW  - Πηγές
N1  - Includes bibliography (p. 595-628) and index; Introduction-- The three ages of Byzantine Cyprus: great prosperity; swift decline and improverishment; gradual recovery -- The regional geography of Byzantine Cyprus -- Part 1. Strands of evidence -- Changing hierarchies of provincial government: the sigillographic evidence -- Trends and local variations in the money supply: the numismatic evidence -- Public inscriptions and their context: the epigraphic evidence -- The province's trading partners in the Mediterranean world: the ceramic evidence -- Styles of church architecture: changing fashions in the building of churches and monasteries -- "The trowel cannot lie": ambiguities in the interpretation of urban archaeology -- Expressions of faithfulness: religious mentalities and the sense of Cypriot identity -- Part 2. The changing fabric of society -- From 491 to 610 -- From 610 to 688 -- From 688 to 965 -- From 965 to c.1094 -- From c.1094 to 1191 -- Conclusions -- The balance-sheet: provincial self-sufficiency and the effects of intervensions by central government -- Conclusion, and some remarks on future research -- Select bibliography -- General index
ER  -