An Unknown Portrait of King of Cyprus Hugh IV Lusignan: Reconstructions, Questions and Hypotheses Regarding a Miniature from the Manuscript BSB. Clm. 10268. Michael Scotus. F. 1r.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2020.3104.07

Abstract

The Lusignan epoch in Cyprus produced a number of interesting and extraor­dinary individuals, of which king Hugh IV Lusignan particularly stood out. However, due to a lack of portraits left to us from that time, we have only a very vague concept of what those individuals’ appearances looked like. This work makes a unique attempt at reconstructing a portrait of king Hugh IV Lusignan based on a miniature found in a manuscript containing works of Michael Scotus, located in the Bavarian State Library.

Author Biography

Svetlana V. Bliznyuk, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Dr hab., graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985. In 1990 she defended her Ph.D. thesis, and in 2016 her habilitation. Now she works as an associate professor of the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, is an author of six monographies and numerous articles on the history of Cyprus and the Crusader states in Orient in the Late Middle Ages in Russian, Italian, English and German languages. She was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), a participant in numerous internatio­nal and Russian scientific projects on the history of international relations and international trade in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages.

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2020-12-31
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Bliznyuk, S.V. 2020. An Unknown Portrait of King of Cyprus Hugh IV Lusignan: Reconstructions, Questions and Hypotheses Regarding a Miniature from the Manuscript BSB. Clm. 10268. Michael Scotus. F. 1r. Perspectives on Culture. 31, 4 (Dec. 2020), 77-88. DOI:https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2020.3104.07.
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