TY - BOOK AU - Wells,Colin TI - Sailing from Byzantium: how a lost Empire shaped the world SN - 9780553803815 AV - CB353 .W45 2006 U1 - 940 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Delacorte Press KW - Civilization, Slavic KW - Byzantine influences KW - Civilization, Islamic KW - Europe, Western KW - Civilization N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006042665-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006042665-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/2006042665-s.html ER -