Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Audiobook)

from Sandydog1

Even though this book is short, it was a bit overwhelming. Comprehension was complicated by the lack of clear chronology and the amazing number of historical figures, each with a very long Latin, Greek or name Slavic name. 'Not a Rocco, Tony, Paulie, Frankie, or Nico - in the bunch! A thorough ov...

from jerry-book

Did the Byzantine scholars who fled Constantinople provide the spark for the Italian Renaissance? Did the Byzantines provide the bulwark against the Muslim invasion in the Middle Ages? Did the Byzantines dwell way too much on their past? All these questions are dealt with in this informative book.

from ianracey

The Byzantines saw themselves as inheritors and continuators of the Imperial Roman legacy, and, as part of this, as the guardians of the one true Christian faith. But their European contemporaries, and many Westerners see it quite differently: we see ourselves as Rome's descendants to one degree ...

from kaitanya64

This is one of those tricky books that I want to like more than I do. It's hard to pitch a history like this exactly right. There were parts where I felt the author was going into more detail than I wanted, since I picked the book based on prior interest. In other places, I wanted him to connect ...