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The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374 (Paperback, New ed)
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The island of Cyprus was conquered from its Byzantine ruler by
Richard I of England in 1191 during the Third Crusade, and remained
under western rule until the Ottoman conquest of 1570-1. From the
1190s until the 1470s the island was a kingdom governed by the
members of the Lusignan family. The Lusignans, who hailed from
Poitou in western France, imposed a new European landowning class
and a Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy upon the indigenous Greek
population. Nevertheless, their regime provided long periods of
political stability and, until the late fourteenth century, a
considerable period of prosperity. In the thirteenth century the
island was closely linked to the Latin states in Syria and the Holy
Land by political, social and economic ties and, with the fall of
the last Christian strongholds to the Muslims in 1291, it became
the most easterly outpost of Latin Christendom in the
Mediterranean. This new study, which is based on original research,
traces the fortunes of Cyprus under its royal dynasty and its role
in the Crusades and in the confrontation of Christian and Muslim in
the Near East until the 1370s. It is both a major contribution to
the history of the Crusades in the Levant and the only scholarly
study of medieval Cyprus currently available.
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