Troubadours and Courts of Love
Publisher: Gale Group
Published: June 1969
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9780810338401
First sentence: THE INFLUENCE OF BYZANTIUM.-Punctilious etiquette, a great attention to the small, if often essential, details of life, marvellous respect, almost veneration, for elaborate ceremony-such were the characteristics of a nation and a court which, while the mass of Europe and of the world was plunged in the profoundest darkness, held a glittering, if isolated, existence on the shores of the Bosphorus.