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

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: xxii, 196 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781443874632
  • 1443874639
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS54.95.F35
Contents:
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? / Tam©Łs 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 / ©¿nver R©ơstem -- The transformation of Famagusta after the Siege in 1571 / Ege Uluca T©ơmer -- 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 / H©ơlya Y©ơceer -- 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 ©¿a♯¿nan 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

Includes bibliographical references and index

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? / Tam©Łs 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 / ©¿nver R©ơstem -- The transformation of Famagusta after the Siege in 1571 / Ege Uluca T©ơmer -- 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 / H©ơlya Y©ơceer -- 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 ©¿a♯¿nan 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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