He is brilliant...He writes like the most cultivated modern diplomat attached by a freak of time to the Byzantine court, with intimate knowledge, tactful judgment and a consciousness of the surviving monuments' - "Independent". In this exciting narrative history, John Julius Norwich, one of most accomplished popular historians, reveals the beginning of Byzantium. He tells of th...(展开全部)

约翰·朱利叶斯·诺里奇(John Julius Norwich)，出生于1929年，逝世于2018年，英国著名历史学家、游记作家。诺里奇爵士曾任世界文化遗产基金会联合主席，英国皇家文学学会、英国皇家地理学会和英国皇家古文物学会的会员，在1993年获得维多利亚十字勋章（CVO）。 他的作品包括《南方的诺曼人》（TheNormansintheSouth）和《阳光之下的王国》（The Kingdom in the Sun），集合在《西西里的诺曼王朝》（The Normans in Sicily）之中出版；《阿索斯圣山》（Mount Athos，与里尔斯比•西特韦尔合著）和《撒哈拉》（Sahara）等游记；以及《威尼斯史》（A History of Venice）等。

Byzantium: The Early Centuries is a popular history book written by English historian John Julius Norwich, published by Viking. In the book, Norwich covers the period 286-802 AD, from the establishment of the Tetrarchy by Diocletian and the beginning of the Dominate in the Roman Empire to the coronation of Charlemagne and the deposition of the Empress Irene of Athens, generally...(展开全部)

约翰·朱利叶斯·诺里奇(John Julius Norwich)，出生于1929年，逝世于2018年，英国著名历史学家、游记作家。诺里奇爵士曾任世界文化遗产基金会联合主席，英国皇家文学学会、英国皇家地理学会和英国皇家古文物学会的会员，在1993年获得维多利亚十字勋章（CVO）。 他的作品包括《南方的诺曼人》（TheNormansintheSouth）和《阳光之下的王国》（The Kingdom in the Sun），集合在《西西里的诺曼王朝》（The Normans in Sicily）之中出版；《阿索斯圣山》（Mount Athos，与里尔斯比•西特韦尔合著）和《撒哈拉》（Sahara）等游记；以及《威尼斯史》（A History of Venice）等。

A gulf of centuries separates the Byzantine Empire from the academic field of Byzantine studies. This book offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship, focusing on the attraction that Byzantium held for Early Modern Europeans and challenging the stereotype that they dismissed the Byzantine Empire as an object of contempt. The authors in this book focus on how ...(展开全部)

It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and insightful essays, Hanan examines Chinese fiction before and during the period ...(展开全部)

The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The b...(展开全部)

This is a grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marria...(展开全部)

The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The b...(展开全部)

In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials representing the dynasty in power, and lacking specialised legal training.