Gothic architecture in the Holy Land and Cyprus: from Acre to Famagusta

Abstract

Some 90 years ago Camille Enlart was able to identify certain antecedants in 13th-century Acre for the style of Gothic architecture that blossomed in Famagusta almost a century later. Recent research in Syria–Palestine and in Cyprus has been able to put more flesh on the bones of this proposition, while also acknowledging the more up-to-date stimuli from the west that are also apparent in the architecture of Lusignan Cyprus.