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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Colin, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Slavic--Byzantine influences.

Civilization, Slavic.

Islamic civilization--Byzantine influences.

Islamic civilization.

Europe, Western--Civilization--Byzantine influences.

Europe, Western.

Physical Description:

xxx, 335 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Delacorte Press, c2006.

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.

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.

Notes:

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0553803816

OCLC:

64098585

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