ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
(…) historical research has shown that Christianity on the Northern shores of the Black Sea did not take root until well after the time of the apostles. The first traces left to us point to the end of the third century, and the most ancient Christian inscriptions in South Russia are of the fourth. Continue reading “Empire of God: Conversion Propaganda in the Christian Roman Empire”
“In his account of the military organization of the Turks (= Magyars), the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Sage repeatedly compares the Magyars with the Bulgarians, and in doing so emphasises that the customs of the Magyars differed from those of the Bulgarians only in so far as the latter had embraced the Christian religion and, adapting themselves to Byzantine morals, had abandoned both their savage and nomadic characteristics and their paganism.’ Continue reading “Byzantine Christianity and the Magyars in the period of their migration”
Here we present selected parts of the very interesting paper “Alcmaeon of Croton – Father of Neuroscience? Brain, Mind and Senses in the Alcmaeon’s Study” (JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE, 2017), by Adam M Zemelka. Continue reading “Alcmaeon of Croton – Father of Neuroscience?”
Byzantine tendencies toward urbanization and feudalization and the concomitant economic development in the provinces in the eleventh and twelfth centuries certainly affected contemporary culture, although different sectors of society reacted in distinct ways. Ιn Byzantium the peasantry and craft-working classes have left few traces. Continue reading “Popular and Aristocratic cultural trends in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire”
There is no period of history which has been so much obscured by incorrect and misleading titles as the period of the later Roman Empire. Continue reading “The reasons why the term ‘Byzantine’, used to describe the Christian Roman Empire, is incorrect and dangerous”
After Constantine the Great established the imperial library, other types of libraries started to appear as well. Continue reading “The Libraries in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire (330-1453 AD)”
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