A review by fil
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich
4.0
Done! For some reason, this last part was much better than the other two. Norwich, perforce, spends more time on events outside of Constantinople and the end product is clear and intelligible, if anything in the Balkans and the Middle East can ever be described as such.
Anyhoo, having the entire Byzantine Empire history and the ridiculous western Church/eastern Church debacle reduced to 1000 pages or so seemed like an impossible task but J.J. made it work.
Anyhoo, having the entire Byzantine Empire history and the ridiculous western Church/eastern Church debacle reduced to 1000 pages or so seemed like an impossible task but J.J. made it work.