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and N.S.H. Coureas Famagusta’s importance as a historic city is unquestionable. The coronation place for the Latin kings of Jerusalem in the fourteenth century, mentioned in Dante’s Inferno, and selected as the probable settingforShakespeare’stragedyOthello,itsnameevokesLusignan and Venetian mercantile enterprise, exquisite Gothic architecture and art, Italian renaissance military architecture and one of the longest and most hard-fought sieges in the centuries old warfare between cross and crescent. The essays in this collection examine the history of Famagusta during its halcyon days, the twists and turns of fate that caused it to soar before its collapse. More implicitly but equally importantly, they also express an appeal to safeguard and promote the fragmented but precious remains of the rich and complex history of Famagusta, which contained, in Ludolph von Suchen’s words, ‘the harbours of all this sea and realm’. Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media http://www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/Home.aspx Central European University Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies http://cems.ceu.hu/ Central European University Department of Medieval Studies http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu Central European University Press Budapest-New York http://www.ceupress.com 225963 786155 9 ISBN 978-615-5225-96-3 90000 > ...

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