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A Short History of Byzantium - John Julius Norwich
A Short History of Byzantium
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780679450887 (0679450882)
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 430
Edition language: English
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4.5 A Short History of Byzantium
Concise But Well-Written History The fall of Constantinople in 1453 ended what the population always identified as the Roman Empire, but has become known as the Byzantine Empire that John Julius Norwich thought had been given a bad reputation in “the West”. In “A Short History of Byzantium” Norwi...
Warwick
Warwick rated it
This is history the way you always wished it could be but never is. It is a scarcely-believable catalogue of violent deaths (try being pierced at close range by hundreds of arrows until you bleed slowly to death), sexual intrigues (one Empress had specially-trained geese to peck corn from her nethe...
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