DANS L OMBRE DE BYZANCE: SUR LES TRACES DES CHRÉTIENS D'ORIENT - Softcover

DALRYMPLE WILLIAM

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9782882501202: DANS L OMBRE DE BYZANCE: SUR LES TRACES DES CHRÉTIENS D'ORIENT

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In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes "an evensong for a dying civilization" -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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ISBN 10:  2752905424 ISBN 13:  9782752905420
Publisher: LIBRETTO, 2011
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