A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of grand magnificence and depraved decadence. In this book, the author provides the definitive introduction to the savage, scintillating world of Byzantium.
John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut. In 1964 he resigned from the service to write. He is the author of histories of Norman Sicily, the Republic of Venice and the Byzantine Empire. He has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries on television, and is a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241953051 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241953057 |
| Title | A Short History of Byzantium |
| Author | John Julius Norwich |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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