{"product_id":"byzantium-the-early-centuries","title":"Byzantium - The Early Centuries","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This thrilling book is the first occasion on which early Byzantine history has been rendered both readable and credible' - Independent. 'He is brilliant . . . He writes like the most cultivated modern diplomat attached by a freak of time to the Byzantine court, with intimate knowledge, tactful judgement and a consciousness of the surviving monuments' - Independent. 'Lord Norwich's skill is to communicate . . . the humanity of his subject - the human faces of emperor and priest - and to transmit his own imaginative interest to ourselves . . . Lord Norwich has appeared as a silver-tongued Virgil to guide us through Tartarian regions with the amenity and amusement of a luxury tour' - Sunday Times. 'The reader is conveyed in comfort, as it were in a very superior hovercraft, which glides smoothly over all the unevenness of the ground, to the regular, melodious sound of the author's prose' - Sunday Telegraph. \u003cbr\u003e\n Dimensions:130 x 196  \u003cbr\u003e\n Author: John Julius Norwich \u003cbr\u003e\n ISBN: 9780140114478 \u003cbr\u003e\n Format: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\n Pages 408\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43605441478809,"sku":"15RC9780140114478","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/Byzantium-TheEarlyCenturies.jpg?v=1701763520","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/byzantium-the-early-centuries","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}