RGZM LEIZA - Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident Negotiating Power and Identities - Miriam Rachel Salzmann Gebunden

This study traces the development of Latin Greek and Oriental Christian aristocratic groups and their interaction in 15th-century Cyprus. Since 1192 the island was under the rule of the Lusignan Crusader dynasty which had introduced a nobility of Crusader families. However due to various moments of political crisis from the end of the 14th century on autochthonous Greeks and Oriental Christians (so-called Syrians) rose high in the state administration and challenged the power balance.