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.