RESEARCH ARTICLE Of Burning monks, unidentified churches and the last Cistercian foundation in the East: Our Lady of Camina in the Principality of Achaia Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakisa and Christopher Schabelb a Department of English and History, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, England b Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Contact details Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis (corresponding author) email:
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[email protected] Tel. +357 22892178 University of Cyprus P.O. Box 20537 CY-1678 Nicosia Cyprus 1 RESEARCH ARTICLE Of Burning monks, unidentified churches and the last Cistercian foundation in the East: Our Lady of Camina in the Principality of Achaia Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakisa and Christopher Schabelb a Department of English and History, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, England b Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus The existence of the monastic church of Camina in Frankish Morea has long been noted by historians of Frankish Greece, but its history has never been thoroughly investigated and its location remains unknown. Moreover, some of the documents pertaining to this church have not been published while others have been published in faulty editions that have obscured their full significance. In the present study we edit (or re-edit) the surviving documents and attempt to reconstruct the church’s history and identify its location. It is suggested that the original Benedictine inhabitants of Camina were the only known Latin religious to be burnt at the stake for heresy in Medieval Greece.