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Ladataan... Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (2006)Tekijä: Colin Wells
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Very good book. Details intellectual decline in Byzantium hundreds of years before it finally fell. However, as it fell, books and translators left the city and sparked the Renaissance in Italy. ( ) This book traced the influence of the Byzantium’s influence on the cultures of western Europe, the Islamic World, and the Slavs in eastern Europe. Fortunately for my sanity, the book was divided into three different sections, but all the events happened during the same timeframe. I found it very intriguing and gained a new perspective on western European history in particular. The book did describe the Byzantine influence on art and architecture, particularly in Italy, and was crying out for pictures, but unfortunately none were included. I'd advise reading this with Google images on hand. I would also recommend reading this in conjunction with [b:Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin|268210|Ad Infinitum A Biography of Latin|Nicholas Ostler|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1312039919s/268210.jpg|260015], which gives an overview of the linguistic divide between Byzantium and Rome and also describes the attitude the Roman Catholic church had toward classical pagan knowledge, which contrasts sharply with that of the Byzantine Eastern Orthodox monks. This book traced the influence of the Byzantium’s influence on the cultures of western Europe, the Islamic World, and the Slavs in eastern Europe. Fortunately for my sanity, the book was divided into three different sections, but all the events happened during the same timeframe. I found it very intriguing and gained a new perspective on western European history in particular. The book did describe the Byzantine influence on art and architecture, particularly in Italy, and was crying out for pictures, but unfortunately none were included. I'd advise reading this with Google images on hand. I would also recommend reading this in conjunction with [b:Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin|268210|Ad Infinitum A Biography of Latin|Nicholas Ostler|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1312039919s/268210.jpg|260015], which gives an overview of the linguistic divide between Byzantium and Rome and also describes the attitude the Roman Catholic church had toward classical pagan knowledge, which contrasts sharply with that of the Byzantine Eastern Orthodox monks. 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 the dots more. So, how does this relate to what I already know? Why do I feel like there is a big hole here? I know there's something missing but I can't quite remember what? So, in some ways it is overspecialized and in other ways underspecialized. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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