International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Georgios Markou
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 
[e-mail]
Monasterium Sancti Pauli de Antiochis alias Veracis Crucis. 
The Monastery of Stavrovouni in Venetian Cyprus, 1489-1571
The mountaintop monastery of Stavrovouni, with its relic of the True Cross, has been the 
most famous pilgrim shrine on Cyprus since the early Middle Ages. By 1254, the Black monks, 
replaced the Orthodox monks of the order of Saint Basil, thus commencing the Latin period in the 
foundation’s history. Even though most of the travellers during the Lusignan and the subsequent 
Venetian periods commented on the Benedictine monastery, their accounts are often limited in 
terms of describing the relics, especially the Cross that was “miraculously” suspended on air. Based 
on documentary evidence, this paper will examine the history of the foundation during the period 
of Venetian rule on the island and its connection with the illustrious family of the Podocataros.

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VENETIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (AND BYZANTINE STUDIES)
Conveners: 
Andrea
Nanetti
, 
Șerban V. Marin
Andrea Nanetti, 
Engineering Venetian Historiography: 
A Case Study towards an Algebra of Highly-Crossed-Linked Events and Transformation Processes
Șerban V. Marin,
 
Propagandistic Usefulness or Means to Reconstruct the Past? 
Few Aspects on the Importance of the Venetian Chronicles
Roberto Pesce, 
The First Venetians: The Chosen People
Andrea
Beretta,
The 
Life of Attila
in the Venetian Chronicles
Daniele Dibello, 
The Art of Mystifying: The Venetian Chronicles and Events that Never Happened
Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu, 
The Church of San Marco in the Eleventh Century