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The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of the Lusignan, Genoese and Venetian history of the main port city of Cyprus, a Mediterranean crossroads. The essays contribute to the understanding of Famagusta's social and administrative structure, as well as the influences on its architectural, artisan, and art historical heritage from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. We read of crusader bishops from central France, metalworkers from Asia Minor, mercenaries from Genoa, refugees from Acre, and traders from Venice. The themes of the city's diasporas and cultural hybridity permeate and unify the essays in this collaborative effort. Some of the studies use archival sources to reconstruct the early stages of appearances of various buildings. Such research is of vital importance, given the threat to Famagusta's medieval and early modern heritage by its use as a military base since 1974.
C.L. Vincent lives in the forests of northern Minnesota. Although self-described as a recluse constantly surrounded by his family, Vincent has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and New Zealand. His wealth of knowledge and experience in both ancient and contemporary cultures creates in the Lost Magik trilogy a fantasy world before recorded history. With the creative imagination of cinema and a literary style unique in the world of fantasy authors, Vincent establishes in his trilogy an insightful contribution to the origin of human behavior which develops from the intersecting shadows of light and dark, good and evil. In his first venture into the publishing world with Lost Magik, Vincent purposely steps out of the defined and popularly followed boundaries of the fantasy genre. Like the forests in which he lives, Vincent takes the reader through an adventure that is at first dense and slow going. Clearings appear suddenly, but the ensuing tangle of underbrush can trip up a reader who is unexpectedly looking for a cookie-cutter style typical of fantasy series. When asked for an extensive interview on the release of Lost Magik, Vincent declined but offered this explanation: "When a work of art speaks to me, in that moment, the last thing I want is for the artist to stand next to me and tell me who he is and why he painted what he did." When pushed to offer a few more details about himself, Vincent reluctantly complied: "I both fish a lot and fix motorcycles. My greatest success in life is to earn my living without a career. My family and friends are not at all surprised by the Lost Magik trilogy, but they are surprised to find in all of my characters so little of them and so much of me. It is not easy to live in the real world, where I want everything to be all about me. Ah, but in a fantasy world, it is my stage where I get to play every role." When asked why he did not publish a nonfictional account of the physical and cultural anthropology for any one of many ancient civilizations, he laughed and gave a wizardly wink as he answered, "Maybe I did." The other books that continue the story: Invisible Thread - Where the Mountains Meet the Sea
Nineteen studies illuminating Herod's role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable achievements, as expressed in his extensive building programme. Josephus' record is examined here in the light of the available documentary and archaeological evidence.
Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety. By identifying guiding values, urban patterns and typologies, and local needs and experiences, cities can break the isolation of the harbor by reconnecting it to the urban structure; its functions, spaces and forms. Using the UNESCO recommendation for the "Historic Urban Landscape" as the guiding concept and a tool for managing urban preservation and change, this collection of essays illustrates solutions to issues of globalisation, commercialization of space and commoditisation of culture in waterfront development. Through sixteen selected case studies, Editors Heleni Porfyriou and Marichela Sepe offer planners and urban designers a broad spectrum of alternative solutions to waterfront regeneration interventions and redevelopments, addressing sustainability, regional cultural diversity, and the debate between conservation and transformation.