Table of Contents

1. Mattia Pascal and the Name of Cyprus

2. Seeing the Unseen: A Brief Overview of Cypriot Historiography

3. The Mousetrap of Methodology

4. A History of Cyprus in the Early Middle Ages

5. Urban vs. Rural: The Many Sides of the Cypriot Coin

6. An Insular Economy in Transition

7 Aftermath and Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Luca Zavagno received his BA degree in History from the University Ca’Foscari, Venice; he completed his PhD studies at the University of Birmingham on the society, culture, economics and politics of Byzantine cities. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University. Dr. Zavagno is the author of many articles on the Byzantine and early Medieval Mediterranean and of the co-edited volumes Islands of Eastern Mediterranean: A History of Cross Cultural Encounters and People (2014), Goods on the Move: Merchants, Networks and Communication Routes in the Medieval and Early Modern Era (2016) and of Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2009).

Reviews

"Any scholar interested in the interaction between the Byzantine and Umayyad states in this period will find the book useful." - D. A. Slane, University of Maryland University College‘Au final, Luca Zavagno livre un essai stimulant et engagé qui invite le lecteur à changer son regard sur une période de l’histoire chypriote méconnue et souvent caricaturée. En élargissant sa réflexion à de nombreuses et pertinentes comparaisons avec des territoires voisins et en développant le concept de « middle ground », l’auteur offre également des pistes de réflexion aux spécialistes des milieux insulaires méditerranéens’ - Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes 48, 2018.