The Middle Sea

This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean,The Middle Searepresents the culmination of a great historian's unparalleled art and scholarship. John Julius Norwich provides brilliant portraits of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the French, the Venetians, the Popes, and the pirates of the Gulf. Above all, he deftly traces the intermingling of ancient conflicts and modern sensibilities that shapes life today on the shores of the Middle Sea.

Viscount Norwich is the first to admit that he is not a trained historian, yet he has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding and scholarship in all his books, especially his studies of the history of Sicily, Venice and Constantinople.

From the Hardcover edition.

List of Maps	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. viii
Introduction	p. xiii
Beginnings	p. 1
Ancient Greece	p. 15
Rome: The Republic	p. 27
Rome: The Early Empire	p. 44
Islam	p. 72
Medieval Italy	p. 87
The Christian Counter-Attack	p. 112
The Two Diasporas	p. 141
Stupor Mundi	p. 153
The End of Outremer	p. 176
The Close of the Middle Ages	p. 194
The Fall of Constantinople	p. 217
The Catholic Kings and the Italian Adventure	p. 239
The King, the Emperor and the Sultan	p. 262
Barbary and the Barbarossas	p. 281
Malta and Cyprus	p. 302
Lepanto and the Spanish Conspiracy	p. 321
Crete and the Peloponnese	p. 341
The Wars of Succession	p. 363
The Siege of Gibraltar	p. 393
The Young Napoleon	p. 409
Neapolitan Interlude	p. 431
Egypt After Napoleon	p. 438
The Settlement of Europe	p. 450
Freedom for Greece	p. 462
Mohammed Ali and North Africa	p. 494
The Quarantotto	p. 502
Risorgimento	p. 512
The Queens and the Carlists	p. 539
Egypt and the Canal	p. 552
The Balkan Wars	p. 558
The Great War	p. 577
The Peace	p. 597
Bibliography	p. 603
Family Trees	p. 610
Maps	p. 618
Index	p. 629
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