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The Chief Inhabitant

Diarmaid MacCulloch: Jerusalem, 14 July 2011

Jerusalem: The Biography 
by Simon SebagMontefiore.
Weidenfeld, 638 pp., £25, January 2011, 978 0 297 85265 0
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... Edward Keith-Roach OBE and Sir Arthur Wauchope, had much the same experience as Queen Michal. Simon SebagMontefiore in his biography of the city rather wistfully describes their rule as a golden age in Jerusalem’s history, when decorous gatherings of religious leaders from all faiths might pose for a group photo ...

Charmer

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Stalin’s Origins, 1 November 2007

Young Stalin 
by Simon SebagMontefiore.
Weidenfeld, 397 pp., £25, May 2007, 978 0 297 85068 7
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... was particularly prominent in Robert Service’s biography of 2004. The first volume of Simon SebagMontefiore’s biography, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2004), dealing with his life and milieu in power, granted him a certain charisma and even had a chapter headed ‘The Charmer’. Still, it was not ...

One-Way Traffic

Ferdinand Mount: Ancient India, 12 September 2024

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World 
by William Dalrymple.
Bloomsbury, 482 pp., £30, September, 978 1 4088 6441 8
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... the places they had seen.Dalrymple calls all this the ‘Indosphere’, attributing the coinage to Simon SebagMontefiore (elsewhere it is attributed to Professor James Matisoff, a celebrated coiner of neologisms). But however we wish to describe it, the phenomenon is achieved, if not quite without firing a shot, at ...

Wreckage of Ellipses

Anna Della Subin: On Enheduana, 8 February 2024

Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author 
by Sophus Helle.
Yale, 259 pp., £18.99, May 2023, 978 0 300 26417 3
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... from poetry anthologies to studies of empire to the recent ‘family history of humanity’ by Simon SebagMontefiore. These works tend to be rife with errors about her. With the appearance of Sophus Helle’s Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author, we finally have a good English ...

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