Author:
Wells, Colin, 1960-
Imprint:New York : Delacorte Press, 2006.
Descriptionxxx, 335 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-327) and index.
