Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades

Annemarie Weyl Carr is University Distinguished Professor, Division of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA.

• Contents: Introduction. Part I Cyprus and The 'Decorative Style': Provincial Byzantine manuscripts from the 12th century; Two illuminated manuscripts at the Monastery of St Neophytos: issues of their Cypriot attribution; Gospel frontispieces from the Comnenian period; Illuminated musical manuscripts: notes on the late 12th century; Diminutive Byzantine manuscripts. Part II Art in the Kingdom of Cyprus: Correlative spaces: art, identity and appropriation in Lusignan Cyprus; Art and the court of Crusader Cyprus; Icon-tact: Byzantium and the art of Cilician Armenia; A Palaiologan funerary icon from Gothic Cyprus; Thoughts on seeing Christ Helkomenos: an icon from Pelendri; Byzantines and Italians in Cyprus: images from art; Index.

’Reading the articles firsthand will introduce you to [Annemarie Weyl Carr's] remarkable breadth of knowledge and the elegance of her presentation... This is a book that every scholar seriously interested in medieval Cyprus and its significance in the Eastern Mediterranean world of Byzantium and the Crusaders, 1100 to 1350, will want to read from cover to cover.’ Crusades