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Colin WellsPublication Details
BookDelacorte Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CB353 .W45 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege?. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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
ISBN
- 0553803816
- 9780553803815
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