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

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

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Main Author: Wells, C. M. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.

Subjects:

Civilization, Slavic > Byzantine influences.
Islamic civilization > Byzantine influences.
Europe, Western > Civilization > Byzantine influences.

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Call Number: CB353 .W45 2006

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Table of 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.