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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-327) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Sailing from Byzantium
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bibliography
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64098585
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Colin Wells
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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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