Chrysovalantis Kyriacou

Profile:
Dr Chrysovalantis Kyriacou is Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. A Byzantinist by training, Dr Kyriacou has taught at the University of Cyprus, European University Cyprus and Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests cover ecclesiastical history and historiography, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Dr Kyriacou is the author of four monographs, including Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities (Lexington Books: New York–London, 2018).

1. Education

2.Qualifications / Skills

3. Εmployment

4. Scholarships and Awards

5. Teaching

6. Administrative Duties
Member of various Committees of the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus (Academic, Administrative, Disciplinary, and Internal Quality Assurance)

7. Member of Research Boards and Professional Services
2010 British Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
2010 Society of Cypriot Studies

8. Member of Conference Organising Committees

9. Reviewer for Journals, Academic Publishers and Research Funding Bodies

10. Research Programmes – Funding
€120.000 Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation: «Aspects of Multi-Confessionalism and Human Geography in Early Modern Cyprus, from the Venetians to the Ottomans», hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (2019-22)

11. Research Interests

12. Publications

Monographs (reviewed)

1. (Edited volume), Χριστιανική ετερότητα και συνύπαρξη πριν και μετά την οθωμανική κατάκτηση: Η Κύπρος στο μεταίχμιο δύο κόσμων (16^ος-17^ος αι.) (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation: Lefkosia/Nicosia, 2021)
2. The Byzantine Warrior Hero: Cypriot Folk Songs As History and Myth, 965–1571 (Lexington Books: New York–London, 2020)
3. Christian Diversity in Late Venetian Cyprus. A Study and English Translation of Codex B- 030 from the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation: Lefkosia/Nicosia, 2020) [preface by Dr G. Murdock], at https://gnosis.library.ucy.ac.cy/bitstream/handle/7/61672/Kyriacou%20Christian%20dive rsity.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
4. Κυπροβενετικά. Στοιχεία θρησκευτικής ανθρωπογεωγραφίας της βενετοκρατούμενης Κύπρου από τον κώδικα Β-030 του Πολιτιστικού Ιδρύματος Τράπεζας Κύπρου. Εισαγωγή, διπλωματική έκδοση, μετάφραση και σχόλια (Holy Monastery of Kykkos Museum: Lefkosia/Nicosia, 2019) [preface by S. Perdikis].
5. Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571: Society, Spirituality, and Identities (Lexington Books: New York–London, 2018). Reviewed in Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 48 (2018), 238-241 (Ph. Trélat); The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71:1 (2020), 166-168 (N. Coureas); and Diogenes, 9 (2020), 29-31 (F. Fujita)

Published Articles and Book Chapters (Reviewed)

1. «Νήσος Ορθοδόξων: ο Αρχιμανδρίτης Κυπριανός και η θρησκευτική ανθρωπογεωγραφία της μεσαιωνικής και πρώιμης νεότερης Κύπρου», Βυζαντινά Σύμμεικτα, 32 (2022), 103-145.
2. «The Cypriot Peasant Revolt of 1426: Mentalities and Resistance in the Eastern Mediterranean», Frankokratia, 3 (2022), 1-44
3. «The Empire Strikes Back: Multi-Faith Cyprus and Byzantine Orthodox Culture in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean», Cerae, 8 (2021), 3-34
4. (with Dr Charalambos Dendrinos), «The Encomium on St Barnabas by Alexander the Monk: ecclesiastical and imperial politics in 6^th-century Byzantium», Κυπριακή Αγιολογία. Πρακτικά Β’ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου, ed. Th. X. Yiangou, C. Kakkoura, C. Christodoulou, N. Papantoniou (Holy Metropolis of Constantia-Ammochostos: Hagia Napa-Paralimni, 2021), 374-415
5. «Saints, Sacred Trees, and Snakes: Popular Religion, Hierotopy, Byzantine Culture, and Insularity in Cyprus during the Long Middle Ages», Religions, 12:9 (2021), 1-28, at https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/9/738/htm
6. «A microhistory of monastic networks in Late Antique Mediterranean», Post Augustum, 4 (2020), 32-39, available at http://www.postaugustum.com/journal/a-microhistory-of-monastic-networks-in-late-antique- mediterranean-p-32-39/
7. «Βυζαντινή Κύπρος ΙΙ: Μέση Βυζαντινή Περίοδος (649–1191)», Ιστορία της Κύπρου, vol. 2, ed. S. Neocleous (Ecumenical Hellenism Foundation: Athens, 2020), 3-33.
8. «Martyrdom, Memory and Sacred Topography in Early Christian Salamis», Salamis of Cyprus from the Earliest Times to the Late Antiquity, Schriften des Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Zypern-Studien, vol. 13, ed. S. Rogge–Chr. Ioannou–Th. Mavrojannis (Waxmann: Münster–New York, 2019), 747-760.
9. «Ο εθναρχικός ρόλος των επισκόπων Κιτίου επί Τουρκοκρατίας: ο Κυπριανός Οικονομίδης και οι προκάτοχοί του», Μητροπολίτης Κιτίου Κυπριανός Οικονομίδης: Πρακτικά Συνεδρίου, K. Ioannou and Th. Pylarinos (Lefkonoikon Municipality: Nicosia, 2019), 63-70.
10. «Τὸ ἐκεῖσε δουλεύειν ἑλληνικόν: οι εκκλησιαστικές σχέσεις Κύπρου-Βυζαντίου στο λυκόφως της Βυζαντινής Αυτοκρατορίας (1261–1489)» / «‘… and the Greek people there had become enslaved…’: ecclesiastical relations between Cyprus and Byzantium in the twilight of the Byzantine Empire (1261– 1489)», Παλαιολόγειες αντανακλάσεις στην τέχνη της Κύπρου (1261–1489) / Palaeologan Reflections in the Art of Cyprus (1261–1489), ed. I. Eliades (Archbishop Makarios III Foundation: Nicosia, 2019), 24-31.
11. «Spirituality and hexis: tracing the Christian habitus in the basilicas of Early Byzantine Cyprus», Church Building in Cyprus (4th–7th centuries): A mirror of intercultural contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean, Schriften des Instituts für Interdisziplinäre Zypern-Studien, vol. 12, ed. M. Horster–D. Nicolaou–S. Rogge (Waxmann: Münster–Νέα Υόρκη, 2018), 29-43.
12. «Η Σαλαμίνα Χριστιανική Μητρόπολις Κύπρου (3ος–4ος αι. μ.Χ.)», Κυπριακαί Σπουδαί, 74 (2010), 39- 55.