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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors would like to thank all those who made it possible for the contributors to visit Cyprus in April of 2006 for the purpose of sharing their ideas about medieval diplomatic sources and diplomacy as they relate to the connections between cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus, of which we are proud members, very generously funded most of the expenses of this gathering. The Director of the Department’s Archaeological Research Unit, Demetrios Michaelides, along with the other archaeologists kindly allowed us to use their wonderful facility for hosting the three-day event and assisted in various other ways.
The Department’s secretary, Eleni Hadjistylianou, was as usual both helpful and ef cient, putting in many extra hours to make things run smoothly. The assistance of the students of the Department and of the University’s technical support staff was much appreciated. Since so many experts on the Latin East were among those present, it was the perfect opportunity for Cyprus to honour a brilliant scholar and a true gentleman who has been one of the island’s strongest supporters for well over a half century: Professor Jean Richard. On 7 April 2006, the Faculty of Letters of the University of Cyprus was proud to award Professor Richard with an honorary PhD for his many studies of all aspects of Frankish Cyprus, beginning at a time when touring Cyprus by bicycle was the most convenient mode for him, and continuing to the present day.
We would like to express our gratitude to the University and the Rector, Professor Stavros Zenios, for their support in this regard, and especially to the Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Professor Ioannis Taifacos, who graciously offered to entertain our new colleague and other distinguished guests in a manner suited to the occasion. Working with Julian Deahl and his assistant, Marcella Mulder, at Brill has been a pleasure as always, and we thank the editors of Brill’s series The Medieval Mediterranean for accepting yet another book from members of our Department. Brill’s reader—who identi ed himself as Professor Hans Eberhard Mayer—was rst rate. A.D.B., M.G.P., and C.D.S. Nicosia, May 2007.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Michel Balard is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Paris I—Sorbonne. Specializing on the Crusades and the political and economic exchanges in the medieval Mediterranean, he has published over two dozen books, including two in 2006: Les Latins en Orient XIe –XVe siècle and La Méditerranée médiévale. Espaces, itinéraires, comptoirs. He is president of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE), and is preparing a book on western merchants in Cyprus. Michel Balivet is Professor of Byzantine and Turkish History at the University of Provence, France. Specializing in intellectual and religious contacts between medieval Islam and Christianity, he is responsible for a dozen books.
He recently published Mélanges byzantins, seldjoukides et ottomans (2005) and “Byzantino-turcica: quelques remarques sur un creuset culturel,” Archivum Ottomanicum 23 (2006). Svetlana V. Bliznyuk is Associate Professor of History at Moscow Lomonosov State University. Specializing in Byzantine history, especially the history of medieval Cyprus, she has published The World of Trade and Policy in the Crusaders’ Kingdom on Cyprus, 1192–1373 (in Russian) (1994), The Crusaders of the Later Middle Ages: Peter I Lusignan (in Russian) (1999), and Die Genuesen auf Zypern (2005).
Brenda Bolton, formerly at Queen Mary and West eld College, University of London, works on various aspects of the history of the High Middle Ages. She is series editor of Ashgate’s Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West and is responsible as editor or author for a half dozen volumes in addition to a Variorum reprint of her articles on Innocent III: Studies on Papal Authority and Pastoral Care. Brill published her Festschrift, Pope, Church, and City, in the present series in 2004. Karl Borchardt is Professor of Medieval and Regional History at the University of Würzburg and is also working at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich. Author or editor of a number of books as well as several articles on the Hospitallers, his recent publications include Die Cölestiner.
Eine Mönchsgemeinschaft des späteren Mittelalters (2006). He also edits the Bulletin of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Nicholas Coureas is a Researcher at the Republic of Cyprus’ Cyprus Research Centre in Nicosia. A specialist on all aspects of the history of Frankish Cyprus, he has authored The Latin Church in Cyprus, 1195–1312 (1997), the sequel to which he is currently writing, he has co-edited (with J. Riley-Smith) Cyprus and the Crusades (1995), and in the last ten years he has translated of co-edited four volumes of source material on Frankish Cyprus. William O. Duba is a researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
He has published numerous articles on a broad range of topics in later-medieval intellectual and ecclesiastical history, is webmaster of the Peter of Candia Homepage, and is currently writing a history of the debate over the Beati c Vision, the subject of his dissertation, and co-editing Bullarium Hellenicum: The Papal Letters of Honorius III to Frankish Greece. Charalambos Gasparis is Research Director in the Institute of Byzantine Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. Specializing in the Greek territories under Latin rule in the late Middle Ages, he has recently published Land and Peasants in Medieval Crete. XIII–XIV c. (1997), Catastici Feudorum Crete. Catasticum sexterii Dorsoduri. 1227–1418, vols. A–B (2004), and “The Period of Venetian Rule on Crete,” in Urbs Capta (2005).
Hubert Houben is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lecce, Italy. An expert on both Norman Italy and the Teutonic order, he has authored or edited over a dozen books, including Roger II of Sicily (2002), available in three languages, and he has written “Religious Toleration in the South Italian Penisula during the Norman and Staufen Periods,” in G. A. Loud and A. Metcalfe, eds., The Society of Norman Italy (Brill, 2002). David Jacoby is Emeritus Professor of History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He has published extensively on the Byzantine and Latin East and on intercultural exchanges between the West and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 11th–15th centuries. Some of his articles have been reprinted in six volumes of the Variorum series, most recently in Commercial Exchange across the Mediterranean (2005). He is currently writing a book on medieval silk production and trade in the Mediterranean region. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Professor Emeritus of History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, chairs the board of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Formerly president of the SSCLE, he co-edits (with J. RileySmith) the Society’s journal Crusades and has produced about two dozen books. He is now preparing a cultural history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and co-editing (with O. Grabar) a book on the Temple Mount/Al-Haram al-Sharif.
Angel Nicolaou-Konnari teaches Medieval History at the University of Cyprus. A specialist on Hellenism under Latin rule, she is editor (with M. Pieris) of the diplomatic edition of the Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas (2003) and (with C. Schabel) of Cyprus—Society and Culture, 1191–1374 (Brill, 2005). She is currently completing three books on Frankish and Venetian Cyprus, including The Encounter of Greeks and Franks in Cyprus. Catherine Otten-Froux is Maître de conférences in medieval history at the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. An expert in the history of the presence of the Italian maritime powers in the East, she has coauthored or co-edited three volumes, critically edited Une enquête à Chypre au XVe siècle (2000), and published the book-length “Un notaire vénitien à Famagouste au XIVe siècle,” 33 (2003), pp. 15–159.
She is currently co-directing a project on the city of Famagusta. Johannes Pahlitzsch is a researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Specializing in the relations between religious groups in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean, especially Jerusalem, he has written Graeci und Suriani im Palästina der Kreuzfahrerzeit (2001) and co-edited (with L. Korn) Governing the Holy City: The Interaction of Social Groups in Jerusalem between the Fatimid and the Ottoman Period (2004). He is currently editing the Arabic translation of the Procheiros Nomos. Jean Richard is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Dijon. For 65 years he has published extensively on the Crusades and the Crusader States, Catholic missions to the East, medieval Burgundy, and St. Louis.
As author or editor of sources, he has produced a score of books, including the recent Au-delà de la Perse et de l’Arménie: l’Orient latin et la découverte de l’Asie intérieure (2005). Among his many honours he is Doctor honoris causa of the University of Cyprus. Peter Schreiner is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the University of Cologne in Germany.
He is responsible as author, editor, or translator for some two dozen books on numerous aspects of Byzantine and medieval Greek history and culture, including editions of texts, notably the three-volume Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken (1975–1979). Kostis Smyrlis is Assistant Professor at the Department of History of New York University. Working on the middle and late Byzantine economy and institutions, he has recently published La fortune des grands monastères byzantins ( n du Xe –milieu du XIVe siècle) (2006) and co-edited a volume of source material: Actes de Vatopédi II, de 1330 à 1376, Archives de l’Athos 22 (2006)
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