TY - BOOK AU - Wells,Colin TI - Sailing from Byzantium: how a lost Empire shaped the world SN - 9780553803815 AV - CB 353 W45.2006 PY - 2006///], CY - New York PB - Delacorte Press KW - Civilization, Slavic KW - Byzantine influences KW - Civilización eslava KW - Influencias bizantinas KW - Islamic civilization KW - Civilización islámica KW - Europe, Western KW - Civilization KW - Europa occidental KW - Civilización N1 - Ejemplar con sobrecubierta; Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas [309]-327) e índice; 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 ER -