The Byzantine Warrior Hero
Subtitle: Cypriot Folk Songs as History and Myth, 965-1571
Series: Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy; Byzantium (Series : Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781793621993
Subjects: Folk songs; History and criticism; History; Chansons folkloriques; Histoire et critique; Histoire
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: The Byzantine Warrior Hero; title: Series; title: The Byzantine Warrior Hero: Cypriot Folk Songs as History andMyth, 965-1571; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgments; title: Abbreviations; title: Author's Note; title: Introduction; title: "Akritic" Songs and Their Historical Stromatography; title: Questions of "Historical Authenticity"; title: Methodology and Structure; title: Notes; title: Chapter 1; title: Warriors and Cultures; title: The Byzantines: Lords of the Sea, Lords of the Mountains; title: The Chivalric Elites of the Latin Period; title: A Cypriot Byzantine Tradition; title: Notes; title: Chapter 2; title: Honor and Shame; title: Honor and Taxis; title: Honor and the Oikos; title: Honor and Andreia; title: Notes; title: Chapter 3; title: The Other; title: Franks; title: Saracens and Turks; title: Gypsies and Jews; title: Christ and the Warrior's Fury; title: Notes; title: Chapter 4; title: Paganism, Christianity, and the Byzantine Warrior Hero; title: Pre-Christian Culture in Christian Byzantium; title: Cypriot Folk Spirituality and Heroic Traditions; title: Fighting Death: A New Perspective; title: Notes; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: About the Author