The Byzantine Warrior Hero Cypriot Folk Songs as History and Myth, 965-1571.
In this book, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou reconstructs the motif of the Byzantine warrior hero in Cypriot folk songs. Kyriacou uses this motif as a focus in examining Cyprus's memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- The Byzantine Warrior Hero
- Series
- The Byzantine Warrior Hero: Cypriot Folk Songs as History andMyth, 965-1571
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- "Akritic" Songs and Their Historical Stromatography
- Questions of "Historical Authenticity"
- Methodology and Structure
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Warriors and Cultures
- The Byzantines: Lords of the Sea, Lords of the Mountains
- The Chivalric Elites of the Latin Period
- A Cypriot Byzantine Tradition
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- Honor and Shame
- Honor and Taxis.
- Honor and the Oikos
- Honor and Andreia
- Notes
- Chapter 3
- The Other
- Franks
- Saracens and Turks
- Gypsies and Jews
- Christ and the Warrior's Fury
- Notes
- Chapter 4
- Paganism, Christianity, and the Byzantine Warrior Hero
- Pre-Christian Culture in Christian Byzantium
- Cypriot Folk Spirituality and Heroic Traditions
- Fighting Death: A New Perspective
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.