panxa's review

2.0

Although Boswell made some effort to make this accessible to a general audience (in terms of what information was included), it is at heart a scholarly text. Things like heavily academic vocabulary ("misprision" instead of "misunderstand", and "adduced" instead of "caused"), abundant untransilterated Greek and Cyrillic, and copious footnotes make this something of a slog to read. The information itself is interesting, but not presented with the average reader in mind.