Lost to the WestLars Brownworth
Lost to the West
by Lars Brownworth · first published 2009
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I recently fished reading Lost to the West by Lars Brownworth. Excellent detailed history of the Byzantine empire and it's impacts on Europe.
on “Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll” ↗I really enjoyed the 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast too, along with the accompanying book Lost To The West https://12byzantinerulers.com
on “The Elusive Byzantine Empire” ↗…and in part due to less pretense. I would also suggest Susan RiceBauer's The History of Ancient Civilizations, Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the making is the modern world, and Lars Brownworths Lost to the West: the forgotten Byzantine Empire.
on “The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review)” ↗> where Patreon & podcasts can keep the best researchers self-funded and working on these niche subjects full time This is how you turn your society’s intellectual storehouses into propaganda. Lost to the West, about how Byzantine scholars preserved Roman knowledge through to the Enlightenment, is worth picking up.
on “Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences” ↗…Constantinople, most of it found a safe harbor in Italian cities that would become the center of the Renaissance.[2] [1] Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization [2] Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
on “Why did science make little real progress in Europe in the Middle Ages?” ↗He wrote a book on the eastern "Byzantine" empire as well, Lost to the West, which covers some of the same ground as the podcast series but plenty of other material as well.
on “Maps of the Roman Empire” ↗Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization - Brownworth, Lars
on “Ask HN: What is HN reading?” ↗Right now I'm reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6415185-lost-to-the-west There's a strong argument to be made that the Romans existed as a political entity for 2000 years and that the final end wasn't until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The last thousand years are mainly…
on “US births decline for fourth year in a row, CDC says” ↗