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Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / Colin Wells.
Publication details: New York : Bantam Dell, 2007, c2006.Description: xxxii, 335 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780553382730 (pbk.) :
- 055338273X (pbk.) :
- CB353 .W45 2006
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.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | CB 353 .W45 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5039610 |
"Delta Trade Paperbacks."
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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