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City of empires Ottoman and British Famagusta / edited by Michael J.K. Walsh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 196 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443884068
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS54 .C589 2015
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Contents:
Michael J.K. Walsh -- Famagusta in early Ottoman sources / Vera Costantini -- The re-enactment of the Siege of Famagusta at the Ottoman Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582 : a performance that never was? / Tamás Kiss -- Gascoigne's device for a masque : an anglicized "true report" of the Siege of Famagusta / William Spates -- Corsair tactics and lofty ideals : the 1607 Tuscan raid on Cyprus / Marios Hadjianastasis -- Imports from Istanbul : Ottoman exiles to Famagusta and their tombs / Ünver Rüstem -- The transformation of Famagusta after the Siege in 1571 / Ege Uluca Tümer -- Charles Diehl and Famagusta : from the discovery of the city to the Theatre Critic / Lucie Bonato -- Famagusta during the Great War : from backwater to bustling / Andrekos Varnava -- Detainees in British Famagusta : refugees and ships / Danny Goldman -- Bertram John Weston and the Emergency in Famagusta (1955-1959) / Jan Asmussen -- Recent preservation initiatives for the fortifications of Famagusta / Hülya Yüceer -- Famagusta, Cyprus : a future outside the World Heritage Club / Carlos Jaramillo -- "A silent witness" : seismic activity and the structural integrity of Saint Nicholas' Cathedral, Famagusta, Cyprus : some recent investigations / Zehra Çağnan and Michael J.K. Walsh -- The conservation of a wall painting representing the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteon the south wall of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Famagusta / Werner Matthias Schmid.
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This volume of essays is a result of the conference "Historic Famagusta: a millenium in words and images" held in October 2012 at the Central European University, Budapest.

Introduction : Into the silent centuries / Michael J.K. Walsh -- Famagusta in early Ottoman sources / Vera Costantini -- The re-enactment of the Siege of Famagusta at the Ottoman Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582 : a performance that never was? / Tamás Kiss -- Gascoigne's device for a masque : an anglicized "true report" of the Siege of Famagusta / William Spates -- Corsair tactics and lofty ideals : the 1607 Tuscan raid on Cyprus / Marios Hadjianastasis -- Imports from Istanbul : Ottoman exiles to Famagusta and their tombs / Ünver Rüstem -- The transformation of Famagusta after the Siege in 1571 / Ege Uluca Tümer -- Charles Diehl and Famagusta : from the discovery of the city to the Theatre Critic / Lucie Bonato -- Famagusta during the Great War : from backwater to bustling / Andrekos Varnava -- Detainees in British Famagusta : refugees and ships / Danny Goldman -- Bertram John Weston and the Emergency in Famagusta (1955-1959) / Jan Asmussen -- Recent preservation initiatives for the fortifications of Famagusta / Hülya Yüceer -- Famagusta, Cyprus : a future outside the World Heritage Club / Carlos Jaramillo -- "A silent witness" : seismic activity and the structural integrity of Saint Nicholas' Cathedral, Famagusta, Cyprus : some recent investigations / Zehra Çağnan and Michael J.K. Walsh -- The conservation of a wall painting representing the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteon the south wall of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Famagusta / Werner Matthias Schmid.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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