Sailing from Byzantium :
Wells, Colin, 1960-
Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / Colin Wells. - New York : Delacorte Press, 2006. - xxx, 335 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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.
9780553803815
2006042665
Civilization, Slavic--Byzantine influences.
Civilization, Islamic--Byzantine influences.
Europe, Western--Civilization--Byzantine influences.
CB353 / .W45 2006
940
Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / Colin Wells. - New York : Delacorte Press, 2006. - xxx, 335 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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.
9780553803815
2006042665
Civilization, Slavic--Byzantine influences.
Civilization, Islamic--Byzantine influences.
Europe, Western--Civilization--Byzantine influences.
CB353 / .W45 2006
940