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Selected papers from the first seven Othello's Island Conferences held in Nicosia, Cyprus on medieval and early modern studies, held at the Centre for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) annually between 2013 and 2019. Edited by Jane Chick of the University of East Anglia, and Michael Paraskos, of Imperial College London, the volume covers diverse topics, ranging from non-figurative mosaics in late-antiquity, to various reinterpretations of Shakespeare's Othello, to visits by Lithuanian aristocrats to Italian spas amongst other topics.

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Michael Paraskos was born in Leeds and, after attending a secondary modern school in southern England, became briefly an apprentice to a master butcher, before going on to become a life-long vegetarian and study at the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham. He has appeared on radio, television and in newspapers and magazines, discussing art, literature and politics, and has been associated with anarchist thinking and its relationship to culture. He is a published novelist and also teaches art history at the City and Guilds of London Art School and Imperial College London. Jane Chick is an archaeologist, writer and researcher, based at the University of East Anglia's School of Art History and World Art Studies in Norwich. She is a specialist in mosaics and has published widely on the subject. This has included editing, with Richard Maguire, the volume of essays 'Approaching Cyprus' (2013).

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