The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374

Peter W Edbury
Cambridge University Press
 9780521458375
0-521-45837-4

This new study, which is based on original research, traces the fortunes of Cyprus under its royal dynasty and its role in the Crusades and in the confrontation of Christian and Muslim in the Near East.

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until the 1370s when it was weakened severely in a war with Genoa. It is both a major contribution to the history of the Crusades in the Levant and the only scholarly study of medieval Cyprus currently available.