Roger crowley biography
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Roger Crowley was born in 1951 and educated at Cambridge University. As the child of a naval family, early experiences of life in Malta gave him a deep interest in the history and culture of the Mediterranean world. After finishing school he spent his summers pottering in Greece and after university the Mediterranean took a deeper hold with a year spent on and off teaching English in Istanbul, exploring the city and walking across much of Western Turkey. In recent years he has made return trips to the Greek-speaking world, including two visits to Mount platsnamn, spiritual home of the Byzantine tradition. All this resulted in his well-reviewed books on the great sixteenth-century contest between the Ottomans and Hapsburgs for control of the Mediterranean.
Roger has talked about the empires of the Mediterranean to audiences as diverse as Melvin Bragg's BBC programme In Our Time, the Center for Naval Analyses in Washington, NATO, the Hay Festival and his local Women's Institute. He has r
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Roger Crowley
British historian and author
Roger Crowley (born 1951[1]) is a British historian and author known for his books on maritime and Mediterranean history.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Roger Crowley was educated at Sherborne School and read English at Emmanuel College Cambridge. As the child of a naval family, early experiences of life in Malta gave him a deep interest in the history and culture of the Mediterranean world, which has remained the major subject of his work. He has travelled widely in the Greek-speaking world, taught English in Istanbul and walked across Western Turkey. He worked for many years as a publisher before pursuing a full-time writing career. He is married and lives in England in the Gloucestershire countryside.[3]
He has a reputation for writing compelling narrative history based on original sources and eyewitness accounts combined with careful scholarship. He is the author of a loose trilogy of books on the hist
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Roger Crowley Biography
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Thai rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The gods Great Siege.
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Hungarian rights in Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds.
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