Read Series: A History Of Byzantium
by Author John Julius Norwich
Byzantium: The Apogee (1992)
Norwich second installment about the Byzantines is an absolute atom bomb of a book that cannot be missed. The book covers the years 800-1081, and it is on par with the greatest page-turning fiction story out there.I recently rated Norwich's first Byzantine book and wrote my top five memories from...
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (1995)
At 3:09am last night I finished my epic journey through Norwich's three books about Byzantium. I'm glad I did; history fans need to read these books as they are masterpieces. True, Norwich emphasizes the Empire's political history, but there is plenty of depth when taken as a whole. The plot twis...
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (1989)
The history of the [Byzantine] Empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs and women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides.So opens John Norwich’s meticulously detailed account of the first 500 years of Byzantine history, when he...