Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world
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Delta Trade Paperbacks,
New York :
2007. c2006 .
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- ISBN: 9780553382730
- Physical Description: xxx, 335 pages : maps ; 22 cm.print
- Publisher: New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2007. c2006 .
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: 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.