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Depraved Emperors Of A Great Empire

Philip Mansel BYZANTIUM: THE EARLY CENTURIES by John Julius Norwich Viking, £16.95, pp. 408 W hat figures are more evocative than the four porphyry tetrarchs on the corner of......

Reconciling The Old With The New

Piers Paul Read THE BOOK OF GOD by Gabriel Josipovici Yale, f18.95, pp.350 F or some time I have been curious to know what some perceptive and agnostic critic would make of the......