Diplomatics in the Eastern Mediterranean 1000-1500

Alexander Beihammer, Ph.D. (Vienna 1999), teaches Byzantine history at the University of Cyprus. He has published on Byzantine diplomatics and on political and cross-cultural relations between Byzantium and the Arab World. His last book is on Greek documents and letters from early Frankish Cyprus (Nicosia, 2007).Maria G. Parani, D.Phil. (Oxford 2000), teaches Byzantine art and archaeology at the University of Cyprus. Her publications on artistic production and daily life in Byzantium include Reconstructing the Reality of Images: Byzantine Material Culture and Religious Iconography (11th-15th centuries) (Brill 2003).Christopher D. Schabel, Ph.D. (Iowa 1994), teaches medieval history at the University of Cyprus. He recently published Theological Quodlibeta in the Middle Ages, two volumes (Brill 2006-2007), (with Russell Friedman) Francis of Marchia (Brill 2006), and (with Angel Nicolaou-Konnari) Cyprus (Brill 2005).

• Acknowledgments ....................................................................... ixAbbreviations .............................................................................. xiList of Contributors .................................................................... xiii1. Eastern Mediterranean Diplomatics: The Present State of Research - Alexander D. BeihammerPart I: Archival Sources for the Latin East2. Multilingualism and Institutional Patterns of Communication in Latin Romania (Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries) - David Jacoby3. Catastica Feudorum Crete: Land Ownership and Political Changes in Medieval Crete (13th–15th Centuries) - Charalambos Gasparis4. The Status of the Patriarch of Constantinople after the Fourth Crusade - William O. Duba5. Antelm the Nasty, First Latin Archbishop of Patras (1205–ca. 1241) - Chris Schabel6. Intercultural Communication: The Teutonic Knights in Palestine, Armenia, and Cyprus - Hubert Houben7. Documents from the Hospitaller Registers on Rhodes Concerning Cyprus, 1409–1459: Form and Contents - Karl Borchardt8. A Matter of Great Confusion: King Richard I and Syria’s Vetus de Monte - Brenda BoltonPart II: Chancery Traditions in Medieval Cyprus9. Aspects du notariat public à Chypre sous les Lusignan - Jean Richard10. The Structure and Content of the Notarial Deeds of Lamberto di Sambuceto and Giovanni da Rocha,11. 1296–1310 - Nicholas Coureas12. La Massaria génoise de Famagouste - Michel Balard13. La registre de la curia du capitaine génois de Famagouste au milieu du XVe siècle: une source pour l’étude d’une société multiculturelle - Catherine Otten-Froux14. Diplomatic Relations between Cyprus and Genoa in the Light of the Genoese Juridical Documents: ASG, Diversorum Communis Ianue, 1375–1480 - Svetlana V. Bliznyuk15. Diplomatics and Historiography: The Use of Documents in the Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas - Angel Nicolaou-KonnariPart III: Diplomatics and Diplomacy among Byzantium, Islam and the West 16. The First Ottoman Occupation of Macedonia (ca. 1383–ca. 1403): Some Remarks on Land Ownership, Property, Transactions and Justice - Kostis Smyrlis17. Intercultural Exchange in the Field of Material Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Evidence of Byzantine Legal Documents (11th to 15th Centuries) - Maria G. Parani18. Documents on Intercultural Communication in Mamlūk - Jerusalem: The Georgians under Sultan an-Nāzirhasan in 759 (1358) - Johannes Pahlitzsch19. Das vergessene Zypern? Das byzantinische Reich und Zypern unter den Lusignan - Peter Schreiner20. Religion in Catholic-Muslim Correspondence and Treaties - Benjamin Z. Kedar21. Élites byzantines, latines et musulmanes: Quelques exemples de diplomatie personnalisée (Xe–XVe siècles) - Michel BalivetIndex Nominum et Locorum

"...In short, this is a rich and varied collection, from which both undergraduates and advanced scholars will profit. It breaks important new ground in understanding the meeting of cultures and religions in the late-medieval Levant, and in particular on Cyprus, and shows us how much more is to be learned with the continued study and publication of surviving sources..."The Medieval Review, March 2009, G.A. Loud"...Dieser vorbildlich redigierte und äußerst anregende Band geht auf ein Kolloquium zurück, das das Department of History and Archeology der Universität Zypern im April 2006 veranstaltet hat... muss man den Herausgebern und den Verfassern der einzelnen Artikel danken für diesen vielseitigen und informativen Band, der ein wichtiger Beitrag zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte und Kulturgeschichte des östlichen Mittelmeerraums ist..."Sehepunkte, May 2009, V. von Falkenhausen