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Sailing from Byzantium, how a lost Empire shaped the world, Colin Wells

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Sailing from Byzantium, how a lost Empire shaped the world, Colin Wells

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

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maps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sailing from Byzantium

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bibliography

Oclc number

64098585

Responsibility statement

Colin Wells

Sub title

how a lost Empire shaped the world

Table Of 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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