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14 de jun. de 2024 · Heraclio: el último héroe, el primer cruzado. Al despuntar el siglo VII el imperio romano de Oriente, más conocido desde hace tres siglos como imperio bizantino, era lo más parecido al centro del mundo. Su capital, la ciudad de Constantinopla, tenía más de medio millón de habitantes y era un emporio comercial y cultural de primer orden ...
Hace 6 días · At various points essays turn to John Julius Norwich’s extremely slight Paradise of Cities (which announces in its preface that the history of 19th-century Venice is of no interest), Peter Ackroyd’s Venice: Pure City (well-written and entertaining, but scarcely a work of scholarship), Margaret Doody, Tropic of Venice (a classic case of ...
23 de jun. de 2024 · Some video focusing on the kidnap (and others not!) some of your may find interesting posted in 2021 of the dinner held to honour Paddy’s memory to mark the tenth anniversary of his death. Held on 24th June at the Aphrodite Taverna, London.
Hace 1 día · According to John Julius Norwich, France begins, not unlike England, in a racial cocktail consisting of Ligurians, Iberians, Phoenicians, and Celts along with the five-hundred or so distinct tribes of Gaul. Perhaps around 600 BC, a group of adventurous Greeks from Phocaea on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor ventured to France and founded Marseille.
Hace 14 horas · John Julius Norwich 8 February 1969 ( 1969-02-08 ) The 1519 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernán Cortés (believed by Aztec emperor Montezuma to be the god Quetzalcoatl ) and his 400 conquistadors , leading to the founding of Mexico .
Hace 2 días · An intrinsic part of the great scheme of Bishop Herbert de Losinga (himself a monk) when he transferred the episcopal seat from Thetford to Norwich, was the building of a monastery for the Benedictine monks, who were to have the charge of the new cathedral church.
2 de jul. de 2024 · Comparing the two, the popular historian John Julius Norwich comments that the former "was old and ineffectual, concerned chiefly with his own self-glorification"; Adrian, though, was "a man of very different calibre".
