Ionian islands : aspects of their history and culture / / edited by Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787958603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-6278-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (506 p.)
• Disciplina: 914.95; 914.95047
• Soggetti: Ionian Islands (Greece) Guidebooks; Ionian Islands (Greece) History; Corfu Island (Greece) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; EDITORS' PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART II; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The Ionian Islands stretch south from the Adriatic, where Corfu's Pantokrator mountain overlooks Albania across narrow straits, along the western coast of mainland Greece through Paxi, Kephalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada and Zakynthos, to Kythira, midway between Athens and Crete. Three crucial sea-battles were fought here-Sybota (the first recorded), Actium and Lepanto-an indication of the Ionians' role as an East-West crossroads, between Western Christendom and the Orthodox and Islamic East. Ruled ...