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A tie-in to a 1997 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this narrative history of a powerful lost civilization and its artistic heritage traces the story of Byzantium from its origins in 330 A.D., through its long reign as a Christian empire, to its ultimate fall to the Turks in 1453. 20,000 first printing.
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John Julius Norwich is an active member of the House of Lords.
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coincide with a major exhibition on Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 1997, Byzantium tells the dramatic story of Byzantium, from its beginnings in A.D. 330, providing readers with a spirited, gripping, and original account of a great lost civilization and its magnificent artistic heritage. 24 pp. of illustrations, 8 pp. in full color. Size C. 432 pp. 20,000 print.
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- EditoreAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Data di pubblicazione1997
- ISBN 10 0679450882
- ISBN 13 9780679450887
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine430
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st American Edition. FASCINATING: DAZZLING: WITTY: BRILLIANT: NEW hardcover, Stated First American Edition (Orig. 1997) First Printing, NEW handsomely-illustrated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edging & cut-page-style 'deckle' side-edging, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & w/ crimson-gold-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in Garamond w/ the elegance & remarkable clarity & on EXCELLENT unblemished acid-free archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50", 0.82 kg, xli+431 (472) pp. * ILLUSTRATED: 24 pp of color (8 pp) & b-w photographs & reproductions. * ABOUT THE BOOK In this elegant book Lord Norwich presents a brilliant abridgment of his 3-volume masterpiece of historical narrative. John Julius Norwich has brought together in this remarkable edition the most important & fascinating events of his dazzling trilogy of the rise & fall of the Byzantine Empire. W/ wit, intelligence & an unerring eye for riveting detail, Lord Norwich tells the dramatic history of Byzantium from its beginnings in AD 330 when Constantine the Great moved the imperial capital from Rome to the site of an old Greek port in Asia Minor called Byzantium & renamed it Constantinople, to its rise as the first & most long-lasting Christian empire, to its final heroic days & eventual defeat by the Turks in 1453. It was a history marked by tremendous change & drama: the adoption of Christianity by the Greco-Roman world; the fall of Rome & its empire; the defeat by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert in 1071; the reigns of Constantine, Theodosius the Great, Justinian & Basil II. There were centuries of bloodshed in which the empire struggled for its life; centuries of controversy in which men argued about the nature of Christ & the Church; centuries of scholarship in which ancient culture was kept alive & preserved by scribes; &, most of all, centuries of creativity in which the Byzantine genius brought forth art & architecture inspired by a depth of spirituality unparalleled in any other age. After more than 14 centuries, the ever-dazzling brilliance of the mosaics of Ravenna & the ethereal splendor of the great church of St. Sophia in Istanbul still have the power to take one's breath away. Lord Norwich here offers his readers a spirited, gripping, & original account of one of the greatest lost civilizations & its magnificent artistic heritage. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JOHN JULIUIS NORWICH was born in 1929. He was educated in Canada, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg, & at Oxford, where he took a degree in French & Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, serving at the embassies in Belgrade & Beruit, among other posts. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write. In addition to his brilliant histories of "Byzantium", he has also published "A History of Venice", "A Taste for Travel" & two volumes on the medieval Norman kingdom of Sicily. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The best narrative history available today of an empire as fascinating as it was important." -Philip Mansel, The Spectator; "Norwich 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 & a consciousness of the surviving monuments." -Peter Levi, the Independent * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE wraps, labels, & packages this fine book w/ our greatest elegance & care for prompt secure FREE shipment to all domestic destinations via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a supplementary fee of $14.00 w/ international shipments via reliable, highly-efficient, lowest-cost USPS INTERNATIONAL FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates. Codice articolo 009408
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