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Author Wells, Colin, 1960-

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

Imprint New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.

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 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  940 W462s 2006    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxx, 335 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and index.
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.
Summary A history of the Byzantine Empire describes the cultural, artistic, religious, and scientific heritage of Byzantium that was preserved in the wake of the empire's 1453 fall to enemy conquerors, and its influence on Western civilization.
Subject Europe, Western -- Civilization -- Byzantine influences.
Civilization, Slavic -- Byzantine influences.
Islamic civilization -- Byzantine influences.
Civilization -- Byzantine influences. (OCoLC)fst01352342
Civilization, Slavic -- Byzantine influences. (OCoLC)fst00863129
Islamic civilization -- Byzantine influences. (OCoLC)fst01765648
Western Europe. (OCoLC)fst01272478
ISBN 0553803816
9780553803815
9780553382730
055338273X
Standard No. 9780553803815

 
    
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