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 ma...
An Orthodox monk himself (though he later converted to Catholicism), Barlaam was also thoroughly versed in the classics, an astronomer and mathematician as well as a philosopher and theologian. Unfortunately for him, his formidable learning was coupled with an arrogant, sarcastic manner, so caust...