Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (2014)
From the late medieval period and throughout modern history, the island of Cyprus has been characterized by changing political configurations, which gave it an unusual diversity of cultural, economic and religious connectivity across the centuries. The island thus offered the thirteen scholars who have contributed to Cyprus at the Crossroads a particularly fruitful opportunity to reflect on the history of spatial perceptions of the island. The volume is the first in a new series of publications on the political, historical and cultural heritage of Cyprus established by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, an important (and relatively new) resource for scholars of the island. Historians of cartography will be particularly interested to note the Foundation’s rich collection of manuscript and printed maps, selections of which are digitized and made available online. The volume is divided into three sections. The first, ‘Humanists at Work’, is devoted to the intellectual context of cartographical and geographical representation relating to Cyprus from the late medieval through the early modern period. The second, ‘Describing Strategies and Exploration’, takes themes of exploration, travel writing, and military and religious geographies of Cyprus from the early modern period through the eighteenth century. The final and most tightly focused section, ‘Taking Possession’, consists of three chapters investigating the perception of Cypriot geographies and identities during the nineteenth century. The chapters take a range of approaches and sources that include mapping in biblical exegesis, humanist cosmography, narratives such as travel accounts and diaries, military mapping, and archaeological descriptions. The result is a rich impression of the possibilities of the diverse methodologies available for an analysis of spatial perceptions of Cyprus.
...MoreReview Erin Maglaque (2016) Review of "Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 108-109).
Chapter Patrick Gautier Dalché (2014) A Humanist’s Geographical Method: Cyprus According to Pietro Ranzano. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 55-64).
Chapter Kyriakos Demetriou (2014) British Visitors and Travellers to Cyprus at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Cultural Representations, Imageries and the Ideology of Imperialism. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 209-238).
Chapter Michalis N. Michael; Eftihios Gavriel (2014) Cyprus in the Cihannüma [Cosmography] of the Ottoman Geographer Kâtip Çelebi. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 85-93).
Chapter Mary Roussou-Sinclair (2014) British Travellers’ Perception of Cypriot Identities (1878-1960). In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 197-207).
Chapter Chet Van Duzer (2014) The Image of Cyprus in the late Medieval Illustrated Encyclpaedia of Geography, Les merveilles du monde. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 39-54).
Chapter Sabine Rogge (2014) Eugen Oberhummer: A German Geographer and Classical Scholar Travelling on Cyprus in the Late Nineteenth Century. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 167-196).
Chapter Elizabeth A. Zachariadou (2014) The Silence of Ottoman Geographer Piri Reis on the Shrine of Hala Sultan at Larnaca. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 97-104).
Chapter Gilles Grivaud (2014) The Drawings, Plans and Models of Venetian Military Engineers on Cyprus. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 105-122).
Chapter Panagiotis N. Doukellis (2014) From Physical and Religious Geography to Monastic Landscape: Vasili Grigorovits Barskij. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 137-149).
Chapter Giorgos Tolias (2014) Setting Cyprus in the World: Cyprus in Humanist Cosmography, c. 1460-1580. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 65-83).
Chapter Catherine Delano-Smith (2014) Mapping Medieval Biblical Exegesis in the Reformation: Putting Cyprus on the Map. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 21-37).
Chapter Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister (2014) The Roads of Orality: Travellers and Networks on Eighteenth-century Cyprus. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 151-163).
Chapter Benjamin Arbel (2014) Elijah of Pesaro’s Description of Famagusta (1563). In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 123-136).
Chapter Gilles Grivaud; Giorgos Tolias (2014) Introduction. In: Cyprus at the Crossroads: Geographical Perceptions and Representations from the Fifteenth Century (pp. 17-18).
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