TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,Colin
TI  - Sailing from Byzantium: how a lost Empire shaped the world 
SN  - 9780553382730 (pbk.) :
AV  - CB353 .W45 2006
PY  - 2007///, c2006
CY  - New York
PB  - Bantam Dell
KW  - Civilization, Slavic
KW  - Byzantine influences
KW  - Civilization, Islamic
KW  - Europe, Western
KW  - Civilization
N1  - "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
ER  -