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The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955.

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The Fall of Constantinople, 1453.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Informative and highly readable.

The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 (1968).

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A History of the Crusades.
3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987 (1951-54). The best popular account.

The Last Byzantine Renaissance.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Late Thirteenth Century.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 (1958).

Schevill, Ferdinand.
Medieval and Renaissance Florence: Volume II: The Coming of Humanism and the Age of the Medici.
New York: Harper, 1961 (1935).

∗Setton, Kenneth. “The Byzantine Background to the Italian Renaissance.”
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
100,1 (1956): 1-76.

Setton, Kenneth M., ed.
A History of the Crusades.
5 vols. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969-85.

Sevcenko, Ihor. “Byzantium and the Slavs.”
Harvard Ukrainian Studies
8 (1984): 289-303.

“The Decline of Byzantium as Seen Through the Eyes of Its Intellectuals.”
Dumbarton Oaks Papers
15 (1961): 169-86.

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Ideology, Letters, and Culture in the Byzantine World.
London: Variorum, 1982. Collected articles of a leading Byzantinist.

“Russo-Byzantine Relations After the Eleventh Century.” In
Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies,
93-104. Edited by
J.
M. Hussey, D. Obolensky, and S. Runciman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.

“Three Paradoxes of the Cyrillo-Methodian Mission.”
Slavic Review23
(1964): 220–36.

———. “Theodore Metochites, the Chora, and the Intellectual Trends of His Time.” In Paul A. Underwood, ed.,
The Kariye Djami, Volume 4: Studies in the Art of the Kariye Djami and Its Intellectual Background,
19-55. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Sinkewicz, R. E. “The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God in the Early Writings of Barlaam the
Calabrian
.”
Medieval Studies 44
(1982): 181-242.

Smith, Christine.
Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Eloquence, 1400-1470.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Credits Chrysoloras with inspiring the ideal of the “Renaissance Man.”

Stephens, John.
The Italian Renaissance: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation.
London: Longman, 1990.

Thomson, Ian. “Manuel Chrysoloras and the Early Italian Renaissance.”
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 7
(1966): 63-82.

Treadgold, Warren.
A History of the Byzantine State and Society.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Now the standard textbook for Byzantine history (replacing George Ostrogorsky's
History of the Byzantine State).

Turner, A. Richard.
Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art.
New York: Abrams, 1997.

Turner, C. J. “The Career of George-Gennadius Scholarius.”
Byzantion
39 (1969): 420-55.

Ullman, Berthold L.
The Humanism of Coluccio Salutati.
Padua: Antenore, 1963.

Underwood, Paul A., ed.
The Kariye Djami, Volume 4: Studies in the Art of the Kariye Djami and Its Intellectual Background.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Includes outstanding articles by John Meyendorff and Ihor Sevcenko.

Urvoy, Dominique.
Ibn Rushd (Averroës).
London: Routledge, 1991.

Veyne, Paul, ed.
A History of Private Life I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium.
Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

von Grunebaum, G. E.
Classical Islam: A History, 600 A.D.-1258 A.D.
Translated by Katherine Watson. Chicago: Aldine, 1970.

Islam and Medieval Hellenism: Social and Cultural Perspectives.
London: Variorum, 1976. Collected studies.

Vryonis, Speros, Jr.
Byzantium: Its Internal History and Relations with the Muslim World: Collected Studies.
London: Variorum, 1971.

“Byzantium and Islam, Seven-Seventeenth Century.” In
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2, 3 (1968): 205-40. Reprinted with original pagination (Study IX) in
Byzantium: Its Internal History and Relations with the Muslim World: Collected Studies.
London: Variorum, 1971.

The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Walzer, Richard. “The Arabic Transmission of Greek Thought to Medieval Europe.”
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
29 (1945): 3-26.

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Greek into Arabic.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Ware, Timothy.
The Orthodox Church.
New edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.

Watt, W Montgomery.
Islamic Philosophy and Theology: An Extended Survey.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985.

∗Webster, Leslie, and Michelle Brown.
The Transformation of the Roman World, AD 400-900.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Weinstein, Donald.
Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970.

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vol. 2. Florence: Sansoni, 1955.

∗Whittow, Mark.
The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Now the standard textbook on this period. Unusually insightful.

Wiet, Gast on.
Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

Wilcox, D.
The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

∗Wilson, N. G.
From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992. Excellent, but not for the faint of heart.

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Scholars of Byzantium.
Revised edition. London: Duckworth, 1996. Ditto.

Woodward, C. M.
George Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Woodward, William Harrison.
Studies in Education During the Age of the Renaissance, 1400-1600.
New York: Russell and Russell, 1965 (1906).

Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators.
New York: Columbia University, 1964.

Yates, Frances A.
The Art of Memory.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974 (1966).

COLIN WELLS has studied with eminent Byzantinist Speros Vryonis Jr. at UCLA and holds an MA in Greats (Greek and Latin language and literature) from Oxford University. He has written numerous articles on world history and culture for over a decade. He lives in upstate New York.

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