Ia is described as a victim of the persecutions of the Persian Shahanshah Shapur II 309 79 C.E Horaiozele was allegedly a disciple of St Andrew and killed anachronistically under the emperor Decius 249 51 C.E and Tatiana we are told was a deaconess martyred duri... Lees meer.

In 1234 four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. Brought together these sources represent the largest collection of material describing any dialogue between the churches i... Lees meer.

The twenty-one sermons translated here were not as was so often the case exercises in belles-lettres but a sustained effort to bring about both social and moral reform as a precondition for the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins. Germanos II 1223-40 was... Lees meer.

Translated works of Nicholas Mesarites an ecclesiastic who provides a different view of Byzantium at crisis point. the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade and its event... Lees meer.

Gregory Palamas a monk of Mount Athos and metropolitan of Thessalonike from 1347 to 1357 was a leading fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectual. He was the chief spokesman for the hesychasts in the controversy bearing that name which began when a charge of heresy wa... Lees meer.

Gregory Palamas a monk of Mount Athos and metropolitan of Thessalonike from 1347 to 1357 was a leading fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectual. He was the chief spokesman for the hesychasts in the controversy bearing that name which began when a charge of heresy wa... Lees meer.

This volume provides the first English or indeed any modern translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical texts that deal with the Virgin Mary and the apostle Andrew.... Lees meer.

This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne a love romance written around the middle of 13th century at the imperial court of Nicaea at the time when Constantinople was still under Latindominion. This v... Lees meer.

While some medieval chronicles have come down to us in only one manuscript about thirty manuscripts transmit the Chronicle of the Logothete in its main form and there are also manuscripts containing different kinds of elaborated versions of the text. The Chronicle... Lees meer.

The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces the themes of the medieval East Roman Byzantine empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to theemperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces the... Lees meer.

In 1234 four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. Brought together these sources represent the largest collection of material describing any dialogue between the churches i... Lees meer.

The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces the themes of the medieval East Roman Byzantine empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to theemperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces the... Lees meer.