Random book from our personal library.
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Random book from our personal library.
pickA biography of the historian Steven Runciman. I found it rather heavy going during his childhood, only picking up once people I'd heard of before were introduced. But then it became an absolutely fascinating look at intellectual and celeb life from the 1920s onward.
Part 2 (tagged book is part 1). "If a woman wants her husband to prefer one of his children to another, she should make him eat half the tips of his dog's ears and make the child eat the other half, and by the truth of the Gospel they will love one another so much that they will scarcely be able to bear being apart." Well, ladies, there you have it. Medieval wisdom.
https://youtu.be/IDSdg_etAkM?feature=shared
^ made a YouTube video showing off the books I bought in Istanbul
Sorry about the terrible audio on this one.
If anyone has read any Elif Shafak or Orhan Pamuk drop me a message... where should I start????
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pickWhen I read “short histories,” I expect something for beginners, but John Julius Norwich gives us a lot of detail to read in this story. I can‘t wait to read the three volume work and see what more details Norwich can find.
The People‘s crusade was an absolute mess…but did it have an underlying purpose? Let me know what you think in the comments and feel free to share with your own followers as well. #johnjuliusnorwich #ashorthistoryofbyzantium #byzantineempire #byzantium #thepeoplescrusade #peterthehermit #alexiuscomnenus #history #europeanhistory #seljukturks
One common theme I‘ve noticed is fighting the pope to divorce our wives. Sound familiar? Yes, but what makes Henry VIII different is Henry actually split from the church. Leaders at this point typically threatened to leave but never actually took that step, but the point is Henry VIII was not creative. He just crossed that line that we haven‘t seen before.#history of Byzantium #byzantineempire #catholicchurch #henryviii #pope #patriarch
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