Την ερχόμενη Δευτέρα 30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013 στις 7.15 μ.μ. θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην Αἰθουσα των Φίλων του Ελληνικού Κέντρου Λονδίνου (Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington
Street, London W1U 5AS) η παρουσίαση του βιβλίου του James Heneage με τον τίτλο: “The Walls of Byzantium”.
This is the first of the Mistra Chronicles series
in which James Heneage will tell the story of the last decades before the fall
of the Byzantine Empire in the mid-fifteenth century.
The story begins and ends in the little Despotate
of Mistra in the Peloponnese, from where three families from the two cities of
Mistra and Monemvasia will emerge to commit their destinies to the salvation,
or destruction, of their empire. Byzantium must pursue two parallel strategies
to survive, one facing east and the other west. The books will tell the tales
of a hero who will travel from Renaissance Italy to Ming China in his quest to
save his empire.
It is the story of a time when heroes and monsters
(such as the Mongol Tamerlane) strode the earth and when truth was stranger
than fiction.
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