A new manuscript of Leontios Makhairas' Greek chronicle of the "sweet land of Cyprus" : British Library, MS Harley 1825 and the circulation of manuscripts of Cypriot interest in Stuart England

Abstract

This volume celebrates Peter Edbury's career by bringing together essays focusing on his major research interests

the great historian of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, and his chronicle

medieval Cyprus

and the Military Orders in the Middle Ages. All based on original research, contributions include new work on manuscripts from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries

studies of language in William of Tyre

thematic surveys

legal and commercial investigations pertaining to Cyprus

aspects of memorialization, and biographical studies.