Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / Colin Wells.

Author/creator Wells, Colin, 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Delacorte Press, 2006.
Descriptionxxx, 335 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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Subjects
Civilization, Slavic--Byzantine influences.
Islamic civilization--Byzantine influences.
Europe, Western--Civilization. --Byzantine influences.

Contents I: Byzantium and the west -- Toward a parting of the ways -- Between Athens and Jerusalem -- How Petrarch and Boccaccio flunked Greek -- Chrysoloras in Florence -- Byzantine Émigrés in the Quattrocento -- II: Byzantium and the Islamic world -- A new Byzantium -- The house of wisdom -- The Arabic enlightenment -- III: Byzantium and the Slavic world -- A threat from the North -- The mission of Cyril and Methodius -- Wars of emulation -- Serbs and others -- The rise of Kiev -- The golden age of Kievan Rus -- The rise of Moscow -- The third Rome -- The last Byzantine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index.
LCCN 2006042665
ISBN0553803816
ISBN9780553803815

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks CB 353 .W45 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold