Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / Colin Wells.
By: Wells, Colin
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TextPublisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2006Description: xxx, 335 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN: 0553803816; 9780553803815Subject(s): Civilization, Slavic -- Byzantine influences | Islamic civilization -- Byzantine influences | Europe, Western -- Civilization -- Byzantine influencesDDC classification: 940 LOC classification: CB353 | .W45 2006Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Sample text
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.
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| CB 353 .L35 A72 1962 The Arab Heritage of Western Civilization | CB 353 .P888 C57 1966 The Christian Life in the Middle Ages and other Essays | CB 353 .S727 M43 1970 Medieval Humanism and other Studies | CB 353 .W45 S15 2006 Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / | CB 354 .6 E58 1968 Entretiens sur la Renaissance du 12e siècle | CB 354 .6 H351 1939 The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century | CB 354 .6 O88 P37 2004 From Paradise to Paradigm : A Stduy of 12th Century Humanism |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index.
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.
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