‘. . . I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium.’ W. B. Yeats From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453, this br
This third volume in the pioneering A People's History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of t
This third volume in the pioneering A People's History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of t
In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic l