“Ruined Cities in Cyprus”: How a Three-Hundred-Word Letter Kick-Started the Preservation of Cyprus’s Medieval Structures

IF 0.6 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
Danai Konstantinidou
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abstract:At the eve of the twentieth century, Cyprus’s British administration perceived the island’s medieval structures from a utilitarian point of view; their premises were put to new uses, their stones were removed and reused in new constructions. A mere six years later, selected medieval structures were declared monuments under the then-enacted 1905 Antiquities Law. This article investigates this radical shift and seeks to establish the seminal role of an anonymous letter sent to the Times in December 1899 . It argues that these 300 words against the alleged demolition of Famagusta’s medieval walls by the British Colonial Office initiated the first steps toward the preservation of medieval structures not only within the town but across the island. Ultimately it seeks to establish that the actions of this six-year period, a response to the letter’s allegations, marked the beginning of a process that shaped Cyprus’s medieval monuments as we appreciate them today.
“塞浦路斯的废墟城市”:一封三百字的信如何启动了塞浦路斯中世纪建筑的保护
在20世纪前夕,塞浦路斯的英国政府从功利主义的角度看待该岛的中世纪结构;他们的房屋有了新的用途,他们的石头被移走,重新用于新的建筑。仅仅六年后,根据当时颁布的1905年《古物法》,选定的中世纪建筑被宣布为古迹。本文调查了这一激进的转变,并试图确立1899年12月寄给《纽约时报》的一封匿名信的开创性作用。它认为,这300字反对英国殖民办公室拆除法马古斯塔中世纪城墙的指控,不仅在镇上,而且在整个岛上,开创了保护中世纪建筑的第一步。最后,它试图证明,这六年期间的行动是对信中指控的回应,标志着一个进程的开始,这个进程塑造了我们今天所欣赏的塞浦路斯中世纪纪念碑。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to traditional, anthropological, social, and applied archaeologies of the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing both prehistoric and historic periods. The journal’s geographic range spans three continents and brings together, as no academic periodical has done before, the archaeologies of Greece and the Aegean, Anatolia, the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt and North Africa. As the publication will not be identified with any particular archaeological discipline, the editors invite articles from all varieties of professionals who work on the past cultures of the modern countries bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Similarly, a broad range of topics are covered, including, but by no means limited to: Excavation and survey field results; Landscape archaeology and GIS; Underwater archaeology; Archaeological sciences and archaeometry; Material culture studies; Ethnoarchaeology; Social archaeology; Conservation and heritage studies; Cultural heritage management; Sustainable tourism development; and New technologies/virtual reality.
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