When preeminent British historian John Julius Norwich tells us in the introduction to his sweeping history of the Catholic papacy that his job is to give us “a straightforward single-volume history” ...

John Julius Norwich's very readable and rewarding "Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy" is authored by a self-professed Protestant agnostic, is reviewed here by another lapsed Protestant, and ...

“Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History” is overwhelming. Spanning thousands of years, the ambitious story is an account of one marauding band after another sweeping across an island notorious ...

O what a gift John Julius Norwich “would gie us,” had he written a 500-page history of the popes over the past 150 years, rather than about most of them over the past 2,000 years. Norwich is fun: He ...

Sadly, John Julius Norwich passed away on June 1, 2018, and “The History of France” was to be, as he predicted, his last book. He left behind a legacy of well-regarded popular history, including his ...

THE OTHER CONQUEST by John Julius Norwich. 355 pages. Harper & Row $6.95. The Normans are well remembered for 1066 and all that. But if the conquest of England is a triumphant chapter in the Norman ...

An author of many popular books on history (Four Princes: A History of Venice) and the son of a British ambassador to France, the late Norwich offers a brief overview of the country’s political and ...

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John Julius Norwich is an earnest and somewhat stiff-backed editor. So it's not entirely surprising that he reveals in his introduction that he is "braced for objections" over his selections for "The ...

Over the past two millennia, countless empires have come and gone, said John Cornwell in the Financial Times. Yet one institution “has outlived them all.” Despite “the aggression of its enemies, and ...