by Julian Romane Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xiv, 208+. Illus., apppends., references, biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 1526782006
The Apex of Byzantine Power
Between 959 and 1025 CE a series of exceptionally capable military and political leaders occupied the throne of the empire that we call “Byzantine,” but that its own Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian people called “Romanía,” expressing their inheritance of the legacy of the Roman Empire. Under Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969), Ioannes (John) Tzimiskes (969-976), and Basil II (976-1025) the embattled empire launched a series of successful counter-offensives against the Muslim Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1258 CE) to the east, and the First Bulgarian Empire (681 - 1018) CE in the Balkans.
Geographical Magazine
Writer s Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Don t Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Writer s Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Don t Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Written by Geographical 2021 Rana Foroohar is the author of Makers and Takers (2016) and Don t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (2019). She is a business columnist, an associate editor at the Financial Times, and CNN s global economic analyst. Here, she shares a selection of reads that have inspired, shaped and moved her
An Artist of the Floating World • Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1986
My favourite writer of all time.
Remains of the Day is wonderful, but this book, which follows an ageing painter in post-WWII Japan looking back on his life, is my personal favourite. Both play with memory and what we chose to forget or reimagine.