Author: WILSON, N. G.
Title: From Byzantium to Italy Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
Description: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Hardcover. ISBN: 0801845637. Gift inscription to ffep in pen from author: "Robin, with warmest greetings, Nigel". Else book is fine. Dustjacket has minor edgewear and rubbing. ; Having all but disappeared from western literacy during the Middle Ages, classical Greek would recover a position of importance--eventually equal to that of classical Latin--only after a series of surprising failures, chance encounters, and false starts. Continuing the story he began in his acclaimed study Scholars of Byzantium, N. G. Wilson describes how the classical heritage preserved by the Byzantines was transmitted to a vigorous culture, first in fourteenth-century Florence and then throughout Italy. ; 200 pages; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0801845637 Byzantine Empire Byzantine Studies Renaissance Italian Studies Medieval Studies


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