House of Dionysios, Archaeological Museum of Delos Whenever the clash of paganism and Christianity is discussed, minds jump to the easy...

Was there an equivalent use of distinctive motifs employed as ornament by the Byzantine nobility (to convey the same messages of...

At the beginning of the second century, Christian ritual was loosely organised. The congregation would assemble at sunrise on Sunday for...

If Rome evolved a stational liturgy in order to connect scattered cemeteries and tituli (which were by the third century accorded...

“Only a few things in the Platonic books need to be altered to make their authors Christian.”[1] St Augustine “Oneself is not the subject...

Ancient Ravenna lay much closer to the coast than it does today, the sea now having receded approximately six miles. Our earliest...

In AD 669 Theodore, a Byzantine monk from Tarsus, arrived in England having been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury two years previously....

Referring to restoration, reintegration and reconstitution, Apokatastasis is the restoration of all creation to its proper place in...

“My son, of course we know very well that the infidel dread the day we come to an agreement and unite with the Franks; for, they believe...

I was recently struck by a paper penned by C. Mango, which asserted that: “The gospel does not contain a coherent theory of demonology…...

“Do not accept the teachings of the Latins, whose instruction is vicious.”[1] Russian Primary Chronicle The Russians historically...

Western theology tends to be identified with post fifteenth-century Thomism. This may marginalise trends such as Scotism, Ockhamism,...

Charles Martel’s martial help was sought by Pope Gregory III, who in AD 739 sent an embassy to the ruler bearing many precious gifts...

The Romans adopted Greek theory and practice as far as both vocal and instrumental music were concerned. Later Roman writers on music...

In the fifth century, several barbarian peoples were accorded settlements on the provincial soil of the empire. The details are worth...

In the course of my own book, which touches on the fusion of Byzantine and Latin learning in the fifteenth century, I found myself...

I first encountered Michael Whitby through his translation of the Pascal Chronicle (1989); a text marking such a sea-change in Roman...

The post-Roman states languish in an electric day-dream. Martial and ephemeral, they’re conventionally presented as biblical scourges...

“William found a remarkable hill, a fragment of a mountain” and “called it Myzithras because they shouted it thus, and he made it into a...

Launched by Pope Innocent III in August 1198 with the aim of taking Jerusalem from the Ayyubids, the fourth crusade’s blueprint had a...