Sailing from Byzantium
Subtitle: how a lost empire shaped the world
By: Colin Wells.
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780553382730
Subjects: Civilization, Slavic -- Byzantine influences; Civilization, Islamic -- Byzantine influences; Europe, Western -- Civilization -- Byzantine influences
Notes: "Delta Trade Paperbacks."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Byzantium and the west; title: Toward a parting of the ways; title: Between Athens and Jerusalem; title: How Petrarch and Boccaccio flunked Greek; title: Chrysoloras in Florence; title: Byzantine Émigrés in the Quattrocento; title: II: Byzantium and the Islamic world; title: A new Byzantium; title: The house of wisdom; title: The Arabic enlightenment; title: III: Byzantium and the Slavic world; title: A threat from the North; title: The mission of Cyril and Methodius; title: Wars of emulation; title: Serbs and others; title: The rise of Kiev; title: The golden age of Kievan Rus; title: The rise of Moscow; title: The third Rome; title: The last Byzantine.