Byzantium : the apogee
In Byzantium: The early centuries John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire's second capital up to Christmas Day A.D. 800 - when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor. This second volume of a projected trilogy covers the following three centuries. The Byzantine Empire, although surrounded by hostile Turks, Bulgars, Russians and various barbarian tribes, and despite being controlled by an extraordinary sequence of adventures, drunkards, lustful empresses, sinister eunuchs and unworldly scholars, somehow managed to survive. Here, Lord Norwich continues his compelling chronicle up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081
Print Book, English, 1993, ©1991
Penguin, London, 1993, ©1991