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Byzantium: The Early Centuries
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 949.5
EAN: 9780394537788
ISBN: 0394537785
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: March 18, 1989
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: March 18, 1989
Studio: Knopf
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Editorial Review:
Volume 1 of the series. Includes 32 pages of illustrations, and 11 maps and tables.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Amazing for what it is
The book does an amazing job detailing military ventures in the Byzantine Empire and gives a clear picture of the Imperial Families. However, Norwich really fails to give a clear idea of anyone in the Empire or in Constantinople besides royalty and some military commanders. The culture of Byzantium seems hidden behind descriptions of military ventures and Imperial missteps.
Rating:  - Sweeping survey of Byzantine history
Eminently readable for the general history buff, this is an excellent overview of the byzantine history of the Byzantine Empire. Highly recommended for those who know nothing about Byzantium as well as for those who think they know it all. Don't let the size of the series discourage you - all three volumes are very entertaining and engrossing.
My favorite book(s) on the subject.
Rating: - BYZANTIUM: THE EARLY CENTURIES - JOHN JULIUS NORWICH
This is the sort of book that brings history back to what it ought to be; a rattling good tale backed-up but not swamped by detail. There are many excellent books on Byzantine history but this is one of the few that unashamedly sets out to tell it primarily through its personalities. More Carlyle than Spengler. Character sketches that personalise some the great figures of the Roman Empire in the east as it continued on after the Fall of the West. A much needed book, the first of a trilogy, outlining ... Read More
Rating: - This Book Is One Big Reason I Went To Istanbul (and Loved It)
If I'd never read a page of John Julius Norwich's work, I would have saved a lot of money. This isn't a complaint, merely a fact.
Granted, as a history buff who has caught the travel bug, I might have eventually wended my way to Istanbul. But Norwich's "Byzantium" trilogy--especially this first volume--made it clear that Istanbul/Constantinople, was a city with a fascinating, beguiling past, the capital of an empire lasting over a thousand years whose greatest achievements in art and architecture ... Read More
Rating:  - A useful chronicle of political history, but better read abridged and supplemented by cultural readings
The English history and travel writer John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich has long had a thing for the East. With Reresby Sitwell he wrote an introduction to the world of Mount Athos and subsequently, over three large volumes, produced a large history of Byzantium for popular audiences. BYZANTIUM: The Early Centuries is the first volume, going from the rise of St Constantine the Great in the early fourth century to the end of the Empress Irene's era in 802. I had mixed reactions to it.
When it ... Read More
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