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Here we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “The Taktika of Leo VI and the Byzantine Eastern Frontier During the Ninth and Tenth Centuries“, by Kosuke Nakada. Continue reading “Roman Emperor Leo VI’s perspective on the eastern frontier reflected in the “Taktika””
Here we present selected parts of the very informative paper titled “The Taktika of Leo VI and the Byzantine Eastern Frontier During the Ninth and Tenth Centuries“, by Kosuke Nakada. Continue reading “Muslim Incursions into Roman (‘Byzantine’) Territory in the Ninth Century”
Here we present selected parts of the very interesting essay titled “The embryo in Byzantine Canon Law“, by S. Troianos* Continue reading “The ecclesiastic and secular prohibition of abortion in the Roman East”
Here we present selected parts of the very informative paper titled “Byzantium and Bulgaria: How an Empire Created its Greatest Threat“, by Conor Roan Continue reading “Roman Empire fails to manipulate the Bulghars; from Boris I to Peter”
Here we present selected parts of the very informative paper titled “Byzantium and Bulgaria: How an Empire Created its Greatest Threat“, by Conor Roan Continue reading “East Rome and Bulgaria: The Empire creates its greatest threat”
Who were taught in the Byzantine Empire
St. Gregory Nazianzen confidently states: ‘I think that all those who have sense will acknowledge that education is the first of the goods we possess‘, and J. B. Bury was doubtless right in saying that in the Eastern Empire ‘every boy and girl whose parents could afford to pay was educated’, in contrast to the West where in the Dark Ages book learning was drawn from monastic sources. Continue reading “Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Education”
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