In The Early Centuries John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire's second capital up to Christmas Day AD 800 – when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor. This second volume of his magnificent history covers the following three centuries. In it he continues his compelling chronicle up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.

In "Byzantium: The Early Centuries", John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire's second capital up to Christmas Day AD 800 - when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor. This second volume of his magnificent history covers the following three centuries. In it he continues his compelling chronicle up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus ...(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。

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。

The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fiftee...(展开全部)

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune....(展开全部)

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune....(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)

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of i...(展开全部)