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Famagusta maritima : mariners, merchants, pilgrims and mercenaries /

"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 Veni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walsh, Michael J. K., 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Colección:Brill's studies in maritime history ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: "Old ships [sail] like swans asleep ... for Famagusta and the hidden sun"
  • A holy site for sailors: Our Lady of the Cave in Famagusta / Michele Bacci
  • Placed in the midst of enemies?: material evidence for the existence of maritime cultural networks connecting fourteenth-century Famagusta with overseas regions in Europe, Africa and Asia / 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  • Starting point of the Genoese thalassocracy in Cyprus: an unpublished roll of knights and squires imprisoned in Famagusta in 1374 / Pierre-Vincent Claverie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 / Dragos 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 travelogues and French 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.