John Julius Norwich

Byzantium

The Apogee

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780140114485
• ISBN-10: 0140114483
• Artikelnr.: 21195603

Autorenporträt

Born in 1929, John Julius Norwich served in the foreign office for twelve years before resigning in 1964 in order to write. His many publications include his two-book history published by Penguin in one volume entitled The Normans in Sicily; two travel books, Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell) and Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; three anthologies of poetry and prose, Christmas Crackers, More Christmas Crackers and Still More Christmas Crackers; A History of Venice; and his three-volume history of the Byzantine empire of which this is the first, Byzantium: The Apogee is the second, and Byzantium: The Decline and Fall is the third. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, a Companion of the Royal Victorian Order and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.