When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration unparalleled in Europe. But sixty-four years later, to the day, when the bastard King Tancred was defeated, the sun set on the Sicilian Kingdom. In this second volume of John Julius Norwich's scintillating history of the Normans in Sicily, Norwich describes the 'happiest and most glorious chapter of the island's history.'
The Kingdom in the Sun (The Normans in Sicily #2) - 1130-1194
John Julius Norwich
Faber & Faber
2018
400 páginas
13h 20m
ISBN-13: 9780571340231
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John Julius Norwich
John Julius Cooper, 2º Visconde Norwich CVO )Comendador da Real Ordem VItoriana), comumente conhecido como John Julius Norwich, foi um historiador, escritor e apresentador de televisão inglês, célebre por seus estudos sobre o Império Bizantino, sobre a história da Sicília e de Veneza. Formou-se em francês e russo no New College, Oxford. Em 1952, ingressou no Serviço de Relações Exteriores nas embaixadas em Belgrado e Beirute e com a delegação britânica na Conferência de Desarmamento em Genebra. Em 1964, renunciou ao serviço para escrever. Suas muitas publicações incluem A History of Venice and Byzantium e o best-seller do New York Times Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. *** John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, CVO, known as John Julius Norwich, was an English popular historian, travel writer and television personality. He took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write. His many publications include A History of Venice and Byzantium and the New York Times bestseller Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy.
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