“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...

One of the most confusing aspects to potential catechumens of Byzantium’s ideology is its ethnography. Unless well-versed in it, the Byz...

Two major elements in the anti-Christian prism through which the jaded West has historically viewed late antiquity (mentioned in the...

It’s easy to line Catherine Nixey between the crosshairs. Almost as undemanding, perhaps, as it was it was for her to portray the...

The Byzantine chapter on Africa (and to a lesser extent, Spain) tends to be a short one. It starts with a whiff of betrayal from men like...

Answering why societies rise and fall is often what brings enquiring minds to study history. And, in the West, the most totemic society...

While it would hysterical to claim Byzantine links to the English were ever stable, considering the fact Lundenwic and Constantinople...

In 1440, Canon Fursy de Bruille arrived in Cambrai with an icon of the Virgin & Child he had received in Rome. Purchased in the belief it...

The road from the achievements of Justinian (527-565) to the drastic actions of Leo III (717-41) was a remarkably short one. Threats came...