Véronique François

Véronique François wrote on the glazed table pottery of medieval Cyprus. Her 1999 article read the figural decoration of Cypriot tableware made under Frankish rule against the imagery of courtly romance in murals, miniatures and theatre¹.

With Lucy Vallauri she published "Production et consommation de céramiques à Potamia" in the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique in 2001⁴, and she is named as a member of the Potamia-Agios Sozomenos team in the project report printed there in 2002⁶. In 2010 the two published evidence for a 16th-century pottery workshop in the north-west of Famagusta: fragments, tripods, wasters, copper nodules and furnace elements found around the churches of St Mary of Carmel and the Armenians, in front of the San-Luca bastion and on the Martinengo ramp². Her preliminary report on Byzantine, Frankish and Ottoman ceramics from the French excavations at the Fabrika in Paphos was listed as forthcoming in 2013³.

That year she published a synthesis in the Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes. It argues that glazed pottery was not made under Byzantine rule, that workshops appear in the middle of the 13th century, and that the finer Frankish-period tableware has closer ties to the Christian Levant than to Byzantium³.