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	John Julius Norwich - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian.
		In addition he has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and is a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.
		Lord Norwich is chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000023791,00.html (222 words)

	John Julius Norwich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich (born 15 September 1929), known as John Julius Norwich, is an English historian, travel writer and television personality and the son of the Conservative politician and diplomat Duff Cooper, who in 1952 was created Viscount Norwich, and of Lady Diana Cooper, a celebrated beauty and society figure.
		Norwich was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton College and at the University of Strasbourg (while his father was British Ambassador in Paris).
		Norwich's recent works include Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Byzantium: The Apogee and Byzantium: The Decline and Fall; A Short History of Byzantium; a work of humor, The Twelve Days of Christmas; and Shakespeare's Kings; and Venice: A Traveller's Companion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Julius_Cooper,_2nd_Viscount_Norwich (438 words)

	Membership- Lecture Series-Lord John Julius Norwich
		Lord John Julius Norwich treated a capacity audience of SAR members and guests to a joyous encounter with his life-long love affair with Venice.
		The "astounding achievement" of creating such a sophisticated culture in the brackish water of the Venetian lagoon was made possible, Lord Norwich suggested, by the level of complete security felt by the Venetians, who fled repeatedly to the inhospitable region to escape the Barbarian raiders in the fifth century.
		Lord Norwich showed examples of Byzantine architecture, with its "tall horseshoe arches forming great arcades," as well as Gothic-style buildings such as the Doges' Palace which looks like a "Victorian tablecloth with a lace filigree at the bottom," and is remarkably indefensible.
	www.sarweb.org /members/lectures/lecture98-99/norwichdesc.htm (503 words)

	Amazon.com: Byzantium: The Early Centuries: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Normans in Sicily : The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194 by John Julius Norwich
		John Julius Norwich creates a landscape of blood-soaked battlefields dominated by glorious conquering armies, and glittering marble cities filled with golden churches and restless plebeians who are as passionate about theology as they are about Chariot races.
		Norwich's three volume history is the definitive narrative history of the Byzantine Empire from Diocletian to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394537785?v=glance (2053 words)

	ipedia.com: John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Norwich is the son of the Conservative polit...
		John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich is the real name and title of the British historian, travel writer and television personality John Julius Norwich (born 15 September 1929).
		Norwich is the son of the Conservative politician and diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper, who in 1952 was created 1st Viscount Norwich, and of Lady Diana Cooper, a celebrated beauty and society figure.
	www.ipedia.com /john_julius_cooper__2nd_viscount_norwich.html (478 words)

	The Religion Report - 12/05/99: God and Civil Disobediance
		Historian John Julius Norwich and the Rev. Fred Nile are two of this weeks cast in a Religion Report which looks the nastiest of squabbles, those within the family.
		John Cleary: Sounds from Moscow, the third Rome in the tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, one of the many orthodoxies we are suddenly becoming familiar with.
		John Julius Norwich: Orthodox bishops and archbishops tend to be extremely national figures; they tend not just to stick to their ecclesiastical life but they also tend to be great focuses.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s24950.htm (3844 words)

	'Shakespeare's Kings': Shakespeare and Historical Accuracy
		It is a period of almost continual fighting: in addition to the Hundred Years' War with France and that destructive civil conflict known as the Wars of the Roses, there were myriad plots, conspiracies and intrigues pitting brother against brother and cousin against cousin.
		The other reasons Shakespeare departs from the facts, Norwich observes, have to do with objections from the court censor, a shortage of actors necessitating the elimination of minor characters (and the attribution of their actions to others), simple carelessness, and, most important, the need to make a more dramatic play.
		Norwich suggests, for instance, that Shakespeare idealized the historical John of Gaunt and made him into the grand old man of his time to create a "dramatically necessary" counterpart to the vapid Richard II.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/041100norwich-book-review.html (581 words)

	Eventually Clever » Shakespeare\’s Kings by John Julius Norwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Shakespeare’s Kings, British historian John Julius Norwich compares Shakespeare’s history plays and compares the portrayal of the kings and their controversies with the historical record.
		By the same token, Richard the III couldn’t possibly have been as deformed as Shakespeare claimed, and may in fact have been a better king than once believed, and a victim of a lasting and persuasive propaganda campaign by the Tudors.
		Norwich takes on firm position on these literary and historiographical controversies, but he does craft them into a good story.
	www.chirographum.com /weblog?p=870 (751 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of Venice (Vintage): Books: John Julius Norwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Norwich shows us all the pomp and pageantry, the masks and mummery, the octogenarian Doges and the Councils of 10, the Zontas, and all the intricate paraphernalia of Venetian governance.
		Norwich has masterfully accomplished the rather difficult task of covering the history of the city-state, which exists in the crossroads between the eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe.
		Norwich as a backdrop on which he richly paints the history of the city and its tremendous contributions to Western civilization -- economically (e.g.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679721975?v=glance (2006 words)

	Cascoly - Amazon: Bookstore -- Byzantium - John Julius Norwich
		Norwich writes for the lay reader, but relies heavily on primary sources, often with intriguing quotes.
		Norwich proceeds to prove that point in 3 volumes of readable history filled with tales both heroic and despicable.
		The last Western emperor, Romulus Augustulus abdicated in favor of Odoacer, whose goal was to continue to rule as a subject of the Eastern Emperor.
	cascoly.com /bookstore/byzantium.asp (1221 words)

	What John Julius Norwich Forgot to Tell You About The Byzantine Empire
		By M. Raphael Johnson, Ph.D. John Julius Norwich was educated in Canada, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and at Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian.
		John Julius Norwich's book, A Short History of Byzantium, which is actually an abridgment of an earlier three-volume ser ies, is a dense journalistic account of this most complex of historical subjects.
		There was indeed a marriage relation between Czar Ivan III and the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaeologus, and thus the Russian royal family has always claimed at least this connection with imperial Byzantium, and certainly had almost always claimed her mission.
	www.barnesreview.org /May_June/What_John_Julius_Norwich_Forgo/what_john_julius_norwich_forgo.html (3486 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Su (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Remember, the Normans (of Norman Conquest of England fame) were the descendants of Viking raiders who settled in France and their military prowess against the Byzantine Empire and conquests in Italy were just as important as their better known invasion and conquest of England and Ireland in the same centuries.
		Norwich is a storyteller as much as he is a historian.
		Like Norwich's other works, this is "merely" a well-written, enjoyable, non-scholarly (but why should scholars have all the fun?) reciting of "the other Norman conquest," a history that few people have ever heard of.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140152121 (802 words)

	BookkooB: The Normans in Sicily - John Julius Norwich
		BookkooB: The Normans in Sicily - John Julius Norwich
		The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194
		John Julius Norwich breathes life into this tale of the sons of Tancred de Hautvilles in the sun drenched climes of southern Italy.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0140152121.htm (364 words)

	Alibris: Norwich
		Julian of Norwich, an English mystic who took her name from the church where she lived and prayed in seclusion, wrote these expressive religious statements during a period of widespread illness and fear in medieval England.
		In a fast-paced, engaging narrative, Norwich chronicles the actual events of the 14th and 15th centuries that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from the untimely death of the heroic Black Prince and Henry Bolingbroke's ousting of Richard II to the legendary Battle of Agincourt and the notorious 18-month reign of Richard III.
		Eminent music historian H.C. Robbins Landon and acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich combine their talents in examining the unique role of music in the life of Venice and Venice in the life of music.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Norwich (938 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99058271 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Norwich concludes that Shakespeare was a reliable enough historian.
		As Norwich explains,"In the vast majority of instances when Shakespeare departed from the historic truth he did so for the best of all reasons: to make a better play." Beyond assessing Shakespeare's accuracy, Norwich provides the crucial knowledge that will enhance everyone's appreciation and understanding of these glorious plays.
		No one but John Julius Norwich, praised for his three-part history of Byanztium, could weave drama and history together into such a lucid and absorbing account of a distant yet vitally important era.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon053/99058271.html (440 words)

	John Julius Norwich - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian.
		In addition he has written and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and is a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.
		Lord Norwich is chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust.
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000023791,00.html?sym=BIO (209 words)

	National Review Book Service: Shakepeare’s Kings by John Julius Norwich
		As the Kirkus reviewer explains, Norwich “uses his immense knowledge of English and European history to illuminate the historical background of the plays and to offer an intriguing look at England in the years of Shakespeare’s writing.
		Norwich came to his love of late medieval English history by way of William Shakespeare.
		Shakespeare is at once a gateway into late medieval English history and a stumbling block, since, as we are uncomfortably aware when we see the plays, he tells the story selectively and from the point of view of a dramatist rather than historian… The design of Mr.
	www.nrbookservice.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C5739 (533 words)

	Paradise of Cities by John Julius Norwich
		By refracting images of Venice through the visits of such extravagant (and sometimes debauched) artists as Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, and the inimitable Baron Corvo, Norwich conjures visions of paradise on a lagoon, as enduring as brick and as elusive as the tides.
		Norwich is a historian of uncommon urbanity: scholarly and erudite but never pedantic.
		John Julius Norwich is the author of histories of Venice and Byzantium, and of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?1400032377 (541 words)

	John Julius Norwich \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris.
		"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details.
		In this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich chronicles the world's longest-lived Christian...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=22369 (196 words)

	John Julius Norwich on LibraryThing \| Catalog your books online
		John Norwich, John Norwich, John J. Norwich, John Julian Norwich, John Julius Norwich ed.
		John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, writes under the name John Julius Norwich.
		There are 32 conversations about John Julius Norwich's books.
	www.librarything.com /author/norwichjohnjulius&all=books (526 words)

	Byzantium: The Early Centuries, by John Julius Norwich
		Byzantium: The Early Centuries, by John Julius Norwich
		Subject: Byzantium: The Early Centuries, by John Julius Norwich
		In one of those eminently quotable and hopelessly prejudiced assessments of which he was such a master, Edward Gibbon in Chapter 53 of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire described "the reproach and shame" of the Byzantine empire, "a degenerate peopl
	www.commentarymagazine.com /cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=7597 (97 words)

	The Normans in Sicily - John Julius Norwich - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Normans in Sicily - John Julius Norwich - Penguin Group (USA)
		The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194
		With a comprehensive listing of all of Sicily's surviving Norman monuments, the result is a superb traveler's companion and a masterpiece of the historian's art.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140152121,00.html (95 words)

	De Bellis Bookstore --Byzantium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich (Vintage, 1998).
		Byzantium: The Early Centuries by John Julius Norwich (Knopf, 1989).
		Byzantium: The Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich (Knopf, 1996).
	www.fanaticus.org /dba/Bookstore/bookstore4.html (230 words)

	A Short History of Byzantium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich chronicles the world's longest-lived Christian empire.
		330 made Christianity the religion of his realm and then transferred its capital to the city that would bear his name, Norwich follows the course of eleven centuries of Byzantine statecraft and warfare, politics and theology, manners and art.
		In the pages of A Short History of Byzantium we encounter mystics and philosophers, eunuchs and barbarians, and rulers of fantastic erudition, piety, and degeneracy.
	www.historyuniverse.com /bookstore2/0679772693AMUS137956.shtml (187 words)

	Shakespeare's Kings - By: John Julius Norwich - Christianbook.com
		In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth and fifteenth century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays.
		It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare, a time during which the crown was constantly contested, alliances were made and broken, and peasants and townsmen alike arose in revolt.
		This book is a marvelous study of the Bard's method of spinning history into art, and a captivating portrait of the Middle Ages.
	www.christianbook.com /Christian/Books/product?item_no=200314 (200 words)

	Byzans-L by author
		John Julius Norwich on Byzantium Wed, 6 Mar 1996 02:41:28 EST
		Runciman (was:John Julius Norwich on Byzantium) Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:12:52 -0500
		John Julius Norwich on Byzantium Tue, 5 Mar 1996 23:01:45 -0500
	www.uni-heidelberg.de /subject/hd/fak7/hist/o1/logs/byzans-l/log.started960204/author.html (1224 words)

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