Contextualising the tax tribute paid by Cypriots during the treaty centuries

In the first part of my paper and after a snapshot of the history of Cyprus from the fourth to the seventh centuries, I revisit the question of the position of Cyprus in the Levant in Late Antiquity with special attention to the conditions created on the island after the Arab raids. This topic was tackled by two recent monographs, Michael Metcalf’s Byzantine Cyprus 491–1191 (2009) and Luca Zavagno’s Cyprus Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600–800): An Island in Transition (2017). After looking at the main premises of these studies, the scene for discussion...