AUTHOR TAKES ON THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND EMERGES VICTORIOUS.(Lifestyle)(Review)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: March 26, 1997 | Copyright information

This strange and fascinating book, filled with drollery and horror, exhibits the outer limits of historical condensation. John Julius Norwich (Lord Norwich) two years ago published the third volume in his 1,200-page magnum opus, ``Byzantium,'' a history of the Byzantine Empire.

Telling more than 1,100 years of history in three volumes was an impressive achievement; to take those three and refashion them into one is to prove that the age of miracles has not ended, even if the result is not entirely satisfying. Norwich himself writes, ``If anyone thinks me foolhardy to have ...

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