English travelers in early modern Cyprus: Piety, commerce and anti-Ottoman sentiment

Authors

  • José Ruiz Mas Universidad de Granada

Keywords:

Travel accounts, Cyprus, Holy Land, English pilgrims, English merchants, Ottoman occupation of Cyprus

Abstract

English travelers saw Cyprus as the last obligatory stop on their maritime pilgrimage route to the Holy Land. After its Ottoman conquest it was visited almost exclusively by English merchants in search of factories on Eastern Mediterranean shores, attracted by its famed fertility and abundance of much-valued products to trade with. In the 16th-17th centuries English traders were warned by travel accounts on the danger of over-trusting the paradise-like island and the risk of “turning Turk”. English travel accounts included abundant information on the repression of the Great Turk upon Cypriot cities in the Wars of Cyprus and anti-Ottoman Christian insurrections.

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2021-11-24

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Vol. 31 (2021)

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