- Hardcover: 688 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; illustrated edition edition (5 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701176083
- ISBN-13: 978-0701176082
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.4 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 312,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"As a historian Lord Norwich knows what matters. As a writer he has a taste for beauty, a love of language and an enchanting wit."
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"an ambitious, informative and effortlessly entertaining history
of the Mediterranean."
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
John Julius Norwich is a kind of modern day Gibbon in terms of his considerable literary style, but is a far better historian than Gibbon.
All of his books are excellent reads, as well as being admirably well informed and with a huge number of interesting and colourful details.
His writing is lively and is far more polished and characterful than most academic historians can manage and that is a good thing for all of us who are not students any more, although his books are good for history students who want to explore wider areas than their own specialisations.
This is one of the grand theme books that Norwich does so well, he is best on the machinations of the Italian peninsula here, a tangled topic at the best of times, but he brings clarity and wit to explaining the struggles of the Guelphs and Ghibelines as well as the dynastic intricacies of the Angevins, Normans, Aragonese and others.
He doesn't get bogged down in so much detail that the broad sweep journey is in danger of stalling, which for a casual reader is refreshing.
I own all of John Julius Norwich's books and this one is a good addition to his considerable and distinguished canon.
All of his books are excellent reads, as well as being admirably well informed and with a huge number of interesting and colourful details.
His writing is lively and is far more polished and characterful than most academic historians can manage and that is a good thing for all of us who are not students any more, although his books are good for history students who want to explore wider areas than their own specialisations.
This is one of the grand theme books that Norwich does so well, he is best on the machinations of the Italian peninsula here, a tangled topic at the best of times, but he brings clarity and wit to explaining the struggles of the Guelphs and Ghibelines as well as the dynastic intricacies of the Angevins, Normans, Aragonese and others.
He doesn't get bogged down in so much detail that the broad sweep journey is in danger of stalling, which for a casual reader is refreshing.
I own all of John Julius Norwich's books and this one is a good addition to his considerable and distinguished canon.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book, why o why do historians allow their editors to provide third rate maps and appendices to these books? The maps in the back are useful if you do not know where Rome is or Constantinople or Sicily, but they fail to illustrate where many cities mentioned in the book are. So this was a frustrating let-down for Mr Norwich's excellent narrative
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While it may be too wide ranging for the bedside of some, it cannot fail as a companion on a Mediterranean trip.
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AS with his other populist history narratives, this book by John Julius Norwich flows easily for the less scientific history reader, giving a broad picture of the movement of... Read more
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John Julius Norwich likes his history big and old school. Not for him the earnest details of the lives of medieval peasants or women's role in early industrial societies. Read more
Published 8 months ago by N. Brown
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This book is truly a remarkable achievement, like the civilisations that lived along the shores of the Mediterranean. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Matt
A lively but limited whistlestop tour!
An history of the Mediterranean is such an ambitious undertaking that even before you pick the book up, the mind boggles at how Lord Norwich will go about doing so. Read more
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If you want a highly detailed, clinically forensic book about the history of Mare Nostrum and the countries surrounding it, you cannot go wrong by buying this book. Read more
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Don't be fooled by non-specific, sycophantic praise...
This book has a very interesting blurb: "The Mediterranean has nutured three of the most dazzling civilizations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest... Read more
Published 23 months ago by aplivings
Very thorough but still a good read
It's a great subject for a history as it covers so many different cultures. It's fascinating to see how the balance of power changed over the centuries and to find out why. Read more
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Brillant overall...
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