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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOUR PRINCES: HENRY VIII, FRANCIS I, CHARLES V, SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT AND THE OBSESSIONS THAT FORGED MODERN EUROPE By John Julius Norwich Grove Press, $26, 304 pages For more than 50 years British ...

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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 ...