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Sailing from Byzantium

Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553901710
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Sailing from Byzantium written by Colin Wells and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege…. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions. The story’s central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced “pagan” rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Within a few decades, the light of Byzantium would be extinguished forever by the invading Turks, but not before the humanists found a safe haven for Greek literature. The controversy of rationalism versus faith would continue to be argued by some of history’s greatest minds. Fast-paced, compulsively readable, and filled with fascinating insights, Sailing from Byzantium is one of the great historical dramas–the gripping story of how the flame of civilization was saved and passed on.

Sailing to Byzantium

Author : L. F. Ranner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948979603
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Sailing to Byzantium written by L. F. Ranner and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three friends, one life-changing summer. Vana, the math prodigy with a voice that is 85% Sarah Vaughan, 10% Billie Holiday, and 5% Aretha Franklin and an attitude to match. Desperate to leave her chaotic family and become the independent woman of her imagination, she lands a summer job on an aging Greek cruise ship as a member of the house band. Marko, who failed his university entrance exams, is on the trail of bouzouki god Markos Vamvakaris, in hopes of claiming his own artistic identity. Stepan, agronomist, accordionist, occasional mystic, has spent the last ten years hopelessly, secretly in love with his only friend. Stranded in the surreal microcosm of a cruise ship, the three friends stumble across a series of dark and dissolving frontiers: between love and friendship, memory and forgetfulness, sacrifice and redemption. On this voyage to the heart of an ancient world, can the bonds of a friendship forged in childhood survive the tests of tragedy and self-discovery?

Sailing to Byzantium

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480418137
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sailing to Byzantium written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six science fiction novellas by the author hailed as “a master” by Robert Jordan—including two Nebula Award winners and two finalists. Robert Silverberg’s novellas open the door to new worlds: In “Born with the Dead,” a woman wills her body to be “rekindled” after death, allowing her to walk among the living, while her husband is left in the impossible position of accepting her death when he can still see her. In the Nebula Award–nominated story “Homefaring,” the time-traveling narrator finds himself trapped in the consciousness of a lobsterlike creature of the far future, leading him to reflect on what it means to be human. And in the collection’s Nebula Award–winning title story, the Earth of the fiftieth century is a place where time is elusive and fluid, and young citizens live as tourists in ancient cities. “When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better,” says George R. R. Martin. Also including Nebula Award finalist “The Secret Sharer,” as well as “Thomas the Proclaimer” and “We Are for the Dark," this collection offers an engrossing exploration of the work of this Grand Master, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “the John Updike of science fiction.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Sailing to Sarantium

Author : Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101462310
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Sailing to Sarantium written by Guy Gavriel Kay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Gavriel Kay, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author of The Fionavar Tapestry, brings his unique storytelling imagination to an alternate Byzantine world… Sarantium is the golden city: holy to the faithful, exalted by the poets, jewel of the world and heart of an empire. Caius Crispus, known as Crispin, is a master mosaicist, creating beautiful art with colored stones and glass. Still grieving the loss of his family, he lives only for his craft—until an imperial summons draws him east to the fabled city. Bearing with him a Queen’s secret mission and seductive promise, and a talisman from an alchemist, Crispin crosses a land of pagan ritual and mortal danger, confronting legends and dark magic. Once in Sarantium, with its taverns and gilded sanctuaries, chariot races and palaces, intrigues and violence, Crispin must find his own source of power in order to survive. He finds it, unexpectedly, high on the scaffolding of his own greatest creation.

Byzantium

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Black Swan Books, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium written by William Butler Yeats and published by Black Swan Books, Limited. This book was released on 1983 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Empire

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101442557
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Lost Empire written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo run afoul of a dangerous dictator in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery—but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico’s ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy the party utterly. Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, the Fargos and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt—but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.

A Brief History of History

Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216922
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of History written by Colin Wells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate

Author : Timothy Power
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774165446
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate written by Timothy Power and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region incorporating Africa with Arabia. The transition from Byzantium to the Caliphate is contextualized in the contestation of regional hegemony between Aksumite Ethiopia, Sasanian Iran, and the Islamic Hijaz. The economic stimulus associated with Arab colonization is then considered, including the foundation of ports and roads linking new metropolises and facilitating commercial expansion, particularly gold mining and the slave trade. Finally, the economic inheritance of the Fatimids and the formation of the commercial networks glimpsed in the Cairo Geniza is contextualized in the diffusion of the Abbasid 'bourgeois revolution' and resumption of the 'India trade' under the Tulunids and Ziyadids. Tim Power's careful analysis reveals the complex cultural and economic factors that provided a fertile ground for the origins of the Islamic civilization to take root in the Red Sea region, offering a new perspective on a vital period of history.

The Walls of Byzantium

Author : James Heneage
Publisher : Heron Books
ISBN 13 : 1782061134
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Walls of Byzantium written by James Heneage and published by Heron Books. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One hell of a fine book' Conn Iggulden IN AN AGE OF CLASHING EMPIRES, DARK FORCES FROM THE EAST ENDANGER THE FIRST LIGHT OF THE WESTERN RENAISSANCE... It is an age of ruthless rulers, divided churches, fractured dynasties and intrepid traders. It is an age of great cities like Venice and Constantinople; an age of conquerors like Tamerlane who will drown the world in blood; an age when only a hero of exceptional gifts can make a difference. Luke Magoris is that hero. A hero who will find himself committed to a long journey to discover - and try to avoid - his destiny. He will travel from battle to trading fortune, from horse dealing to captivity, and to the love of three very different women and the unrelenting enmity of two remarkable men.

Sailing Through Byzantium

Author : Maureen Freely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957596818
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Sailing Through Byzantium written by Maureen Freely and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's one minute to midnight on 27th October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis is entering its final countdown as the world prepares for nuclear winter. But in Istanbul's old bohemian quarter, a confederacy of free spirits has gathered around a baby grand to see the night out in style. The moment is captured in a legendary photograph. Behind them, dark ships pass along the Bosphorus. Some could be Soviet tankers, smuggling missiles to Cuba, but tonight no one is looking. All eyes are on Grace, the dark-haired singer. All that matters is her sublime voice, and her song: Stormy Weather. The girl crouched beneath the piano is the discordant note in the flamboyant scene. This is Mimi, Grace's nine-year old daughter. Until tonight she believed every word her mother uttered. Now she sees a byzantine web of lies. Who abandoned whom that night? And why did it change her life forever? On the 27th October 2012, Mimi has come back, haunted by these unanswered questions, to make her peace with the past.

The Bear of Byzantium

Author : S.J.A. Turney
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1800321295
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Bear of Byzantium written by S.J.A. Turney and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wolves of Odin sail to the centre of the world: Constantinople. AD 1041. After successfully avenging the death of his father, Halfdan and the crew of the Sea Wolf seek adventure in strange new lands, far from their Scandinavian home. They join the fleet of Harald Hardrada, the legendary Viking commander, sailing back to Constantinople from the battlefields of Georgia. There they join the Varangians, the personal bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperors populated almost exclusively by Viking warriors. But Constantinople has changed during Hardrada’s long absence. The Emperor, Michael IV, is ailing visibly, and powerful factions in his court are setting their plans in motion ahead of his inevitable demise. While courtiers scheme, elements even within the Varangian Guard are picking sides. Gunnhild, the seer among the Sea Wolf crew, has struck out on her own in the big city. Unable to join the all-male Guard alongside her friends, she establishes herself in a small side-street near the port as a healer and soothsayer, offering cures to the sick and glimpses of the future to the desperate, or the conspiratorial. But in all her visions she sees a wolf, a boar and a golden bear fighting together to support the Byzantine throne. The Norns aren’t finished with them yet... The epic second instalment in the Wolves of Odin series, taking us to the heart of power in Constantinople and the desperate machinations of the Byzantine emperors. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Giles Kristian and Angus Donald.

Holy Warriors

Author : Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588369757
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Holy Warriors written by Jonathan Phillips and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars. Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.” Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures—from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem—Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.

Back Door to Byzantium

Author : Bill Cooper
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574090437
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Back Door to Byzantium written by Bill Cooper and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eagerly awaited conclusion to the Watersteps trilogy is the story of the Cooper's voyage from the North Sea, across flooded France, down the Rhine and on the Danube to the Black Sea.

The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom

Author : Antony Eastmond
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714848105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom written by Antony Eastmond and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of 300 of the finest works of art and expressions of the Christian faith from the millennium between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance. Chronologically arranged, each work of art is placed in its social, religious and political context, creating a book for dipping into, as well as an inspiring, authoritative appraisal for this magnificent millennium of artistic culture.

Napoleon in Egypt

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553385240
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Napoleon in Egypt written by Paul Strathern and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte, only twenty-eight, set sail for Egypt with 335 ships, 40,000 soldiers, and a collection of scholars, artists, and scientists to establish an eastern empire. He saw himself as a liberator, freeing the Egyptians from oppression. But Napoleon wasn’t the first—nor the last—who tragically misunderstood Muslim culture. Marching across seemingly endless deserts in the shadow of the pyramids, pushed to the limits of human endurance, his men would be plagued by mirages, suicides, and the constant threat of ambush. A crusade begun in honor would degenerate into chaos. And yet his grand failure also yielded a treasure trove of knowledge that paved the way for modern Egyptology—and it tempered the complex leader who believed himself destined to conquer the world.

Sailing to Byzantium

Author : Maureen Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771713849
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Sailing to Byzantium written by Maureen Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding journey through time and cultures... In Sailing to Byzantium two time-travelling wise women from different centuries sail by Viking boat from 10th century Yorkshire to the ancient city of Byzantium to rescue 7-year-old twins. Midwife and fledgling witch, Annie Thornton, and her cat Rosamund, reunite with Annie's Aunt Meg, a hereditary witch last encountered in 15th century Hallamby, England in Tangle of Time, Maureen Thorpe's first mystery in this series. Annie's sweetheart from the deep past reappears to help the women face the challenges of an arduous journey, made more difficult by a sinister Viking queen determined to get her way. Combining vivid historical detail with the imaginative possibilities of magic realism, Sailing to Byzantium is a spellbinding journey through time and cultures seen through the astonished eyes of a contemporary woman who both loses and finds her inner power.

Byzantine Christianity

Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281076146
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Christianity written by Averil Cameron and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘. . . I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium.’ W. B. Yeats From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453, this brief history explores the key components of Byzantine Christianity, including the development of monasticism, icons and iconoclasm, the role of the emperor in relation to church councils and beliefs, the difficult relationship with the papacy and the impact of the Crusades. The book also considers Byzantine Christianity as a living force today: the variety and vitality of Orthodox churches, the role of the Church in Russia and the enduring relevance of a spirituality derived from the church fathers. ‘Averil Cameron’s work has transformed our understanding of Byzantium, and here she offers an authoritative survey of its history and legacy . . . This is a lucid, informative and impressively wide-ranging brief history.’ Gillian Clark FBA, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol