John Julius Norwich (1929–2018)
Autor von A Short History of Byzantium
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John Julius Norwich was born in the United Kingdom on September 15, 1929. He served in the Royal Navy before receiving a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. After graduation, he joined the H. M. Foreign Service and served in Belgrade, Beirut, and as a member of British delegation mehr anzeigen to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. In 1954, he inherited the title of Viscount Norwich. In 1964, he resigned from the Foreign Service to become a writer. He was a historian, travel writer, and television personality. His books included The Normans in the South, A History of Venice, The Italian World, Venice: A Traveller's Companion, 50 Years of Glyndebourne: An Illustrated History, A Short History of Byzantium, Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History, and A History of France. He and H. C. Robbins Landon wrote Five Centuries of Music in Venice. Norwich was the host of the BBC radio panel game My Word! from 1978 to 1982. He wrote and presented more than 30 television documentaries including Maestro, The Fall of Constantinople, Napoleon's Hundred Days, Cortés and Montezuma, Maximilian of Mexico, The Knights of Malta, The Treasure Houses of Britain, and The Death of the Prince Imperial in the Zulu War. In 1993, he was appointed CVO for having curated an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. In 2015, he was awarded the Biographers' Club award for his lifetime service to biography. He died on June 1, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485: The Great Plays and the… (1999) 541 Exemplare
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe (2016) 354 Exemplare
The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194 (1992) 189 Exemplare
Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 (2013) — Herausgeber — 95 Exemplare
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World Monuments: 50 Irreplaceable Sites to Discover, Explore, and Champion (2015) — Contributor. — 18 Exemplare
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- Andere Namen
- Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount
- Geburtstag
- 1929-09-15
- Todestag
- 2018-06-01
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- UK
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- London, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- England, UK
Canada
France - Ausbildung
- University of Strasbourg
University of Oxford (New College)
Eton College
Upper Canada College - Berufe
- broadcaster
historian
editor
diplomat
travel writer - Beziehungen
- Cooper, Duff (father)
Cooper, Lady Diana (mother)
Cooper, Artemis (daughter)
Huston, Allegra (daughter)
Patten, William (brother) - Organisationen
- British Foreign Service
Venice In Peril Fund
Civic Trust
National Trust - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Royal Victorian Order (Commander ∙ 1992)
hereditary peerage - Agent
- Felicity Bryan
Clive Conway
Knight Ayton Management
The Nelson Agency
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Folio Archives 326: A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich 2007 in Folio Society Devotees (Juni 2023)
John Julius Norwich? in History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture (Juni 2015)
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Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy von John Julius Norwich
For a 500-page history of the papacy, this is pretty lively! I definitely learned a lot I hadn’t known before, including about the long history of antipopes, the connection of the pope to the Holy Roman Empire, and how long it actually took for Italy to unify. But even though the writing isn’t ponderous or dull, it still took me nearly two weeks to finish and occasionally felt like a slog.
This is a book that compares and contrasts the historical version of the Kings (beginning with Edward III and ending with Richard III) with Shakespeare's plays. According to this historian, Shakespeare was pretty spot on and took creative license to capture larger truths that would appeal more universally. Norwich feels he took the most creative license with Richard III. I should have taken notes, for memory's sake. 432 pages
I remember loving John Julius Norwich's books about Byzantium as a teenager: big, sweeping epic histories with lots of drama and adventure and some slyly funny asides. Reading The Middle Sea told me that I can never go back and re-read them because I would find them far more tarnished works than they are in my memory. Now, with many more years and training behind me, I can see how shallow are the foundations on which Norwich builds his narrative: the assumptions and generalisations (often gendered, almost always racialised), the thin bibliography, the Eurocentrism, and on and on. Norwich's prose is still pleasurable and there is something of the raconteur here that's appealing. But to the old saw about how you should never meet your heroes should perhaps be added one about never going back to re-read their work, either.… (mehr)
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