Sailing from Byzantium :
Published by : Delacorte Press, (New York :) Physical details: xxx, 335 p. : maps ; 22 cm. ISBN:9780553803815.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | Logos International School | 940 WEL (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 030017 |
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933.05092 MAS Josephus and the New Testament / | 937 FOS Augustus Caesar's world, | 938 HAM A history of Greece to 322 B.C., | 940 WEL Sailing from Byzantium : | 940.2 GRE The swerve : | 940.3 AND A shattered peace : | 940.3 MCM The Berlin-Baghdad express : |
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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