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The Byzantine Empire has been in the midst of conflicts between various Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations for more than a thousand years, and at the same time it was in the process of transformation from ancient culture to medieval and modern culture. As a carrier of Byzantine culture, this literature fully reflects the complex history of conflict and integration between ancient times and the Middle Ages, and Eastern and Western cultures, and provides some important, detailed and unique examples for the development of world culture and civilization from a literary perspective. This book takes the historical evolution of Byzantine literature as a context and uses the works of important writers in various periods as examples. It attempts to redefine the concept and scope of Byzantine literature, fully reflects the complexity and diversity of Byzantine literature, re-examines some important issues in the development process of Byzantine literature and culture, and provides Chinese-style explanations.

"Christian Culture and Western Literary Tradition" mainly discusses the influence of Christian culture on the way of thinking of Western writers and the inseparable connection between Western literature and Christian culture. It involves the characteristics of Christian culture itself, the evolution process of Christian culture, and the thinking model of Christian culture. It is on this basis that this book analyzes the process and basic characteristics of the ancient and modern evolution of Western literary spirit. The basic point of the book is that human society has gone through four stages of cultural development: sustenance by blood, sustenance by faith, sustenance by rationality and sustenance by human rights. The emergence of Christian culture is the replacement of blood ties with the way of belief, and the faith way of Christian culture, under the influence of society and culture itself, has developed the modern rational way of maintaining it and the way of maintaining human rights that has just begun to emerge today. Western literature is constrained by this, and in the cultural spirit reflects the transformation of human beings from natural people to social people and even to people in today's cultural sense, thus making Western literature a unique spiritual and cultural phenomenon.

This book starts with several foreign literary classics, analyzes the life trajectory of the protagonists in the works, and summarizes various life experiences and lessons that can be drawn from them. It explains the profound things in simple terms and is very vivid. It not only provides a good introduction to the plot outlines and artistic features of literary classics, but also helps readers learn practical ideas for thinking about life.