Sailing from Byzantium : how a lost Empire shaped the world / Colin Wells.

I: Byzantium and the west
Toward a parting of the ways
Between Athens and Jerusalem
How Petrarch and Boccaccio flunked Greek
Chrysoloras in Florence
Byzantine Émigrés in the Quattrocento
II: Byzantium and the Islamic world
A new Byzantium
The house of wisdom
The Arabic enlightenment
III: Byzantium and the Slavic world
A threat from the North
The mission of Cyril and Methodius
Wars of emulation
Serbs and others
The rise of Kiev
The golden age of Kievan Rus
The rise of Moscow
The third Rome
The last Byzantine.