Byzantine Warrior Hero
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A01=Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
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akritic songs
Author_Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
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Byzantine Christianity
Byzantine colonies
Byzantine culture
Byzantine microhistory
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Greek Cyprus
Hellenistic Cyprus
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Lusignan
medieval Cyprus
Orthodox culture
Ottoman Empire
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pagan motifs
pagan survival
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Product details
- ISBN 9781793621986
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 162 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Chrysovalantis Kyriacou examines how memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters have left their long-term imprint on Cypriot culture. One of the most impressive examples of this phenomenon is the preservation and transformative adaptation of Byzantine heroic themes, motifs, and symbols in Cypriot folk songs. By combining a variety of written sources and archaeological material in his interdisciplinary examination, the author reconstructs the image of the Byzantine warrior hero in the songs, recovering the mentalities of overshadowed social protagonists and stressing the role of subaltern communities as active agents in the shaping of history.
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou is teaching associate at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus.
