![]() ![]() was the way it influenced the younger civilizations that grew up around it.' In fact, without Byzantium - an empire that fluctuated dramatically in its size, power, and influence during its relatively brief history - a great deal of our world would now be quite different: the separate cultural worlds of the Italian Renaissance to the west, the medieval Islamic empire to the south, and the Slavic cultures to the north would have been radically altered in their respective developments and successes. The author Colin Wells states that his book ' is a work of popular synthesis with no pretensions to original scholarship,' and his main argument is simple: ' One of the most fascinating things about Byzantium. Straightforward in its thesis, and paradoxically encyclopedic in its scope within its mere 335 pages, Sailing from Byzantium, as noted by the author, is written for the curious general reader rather than the specialist. This is a remarkably concise yet thoroughly engaging book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World by Colin Wells ![]()
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