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SOURCES & Further Reading: "China: A History" by John Keay, "Byzantium" & "Sicily" & "Venice" by John Julius Norwich, Great Courses Lecture series "Foundations of Western Civilization" by Thomas F. X. Noble lectures 27 through 38: "The Emergence of the Catholic Church", "Christian Culture in Late Antiquity", "Muhammad and Islam", "The Birth of Byzantium", "Barbarian Kingdoms in the West", "The World of Charlemagne", "The Carolingian Renaissance", "The Expansion of Europe", "The Chivalrous Society", "Medieval Political Traditions I", "Medieval Political Traditions II", "Scholastic Culture".

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