There’s a great anecdote at the start of Byzantium. The author – a Professor of Byzantine History at […]
Category Archive: Historical Non-Fiction
November was quite a busy month for me, so I haven’t found the time to post any reviews […]
Millennium is Tom Holland’s panoramic journey through the two centuries either side of the year 1000. It is, in […]
With a cast of characters including communism preaching Persian mystics, pillar-topping stylites and warrior-scholars, it’s hard not to […]
