“This is the 21st prayer (that) Mary the Virgin spoke the day of her dormition. It restrains all the powers of the Adversary; it cures every disease and every sickness. ...
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In 404, the empress Eudoxia died in childbirth in Constantinople. Shortly after this, a follower of bishop John Chrysostom delivered a sermon gloating over her agonising death as a just ...
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It is well known that in late antiquity many clerics, including bishops, were married. Though enjoined to live a life of sexual continence after ordination or promotion, they continued to ...
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St. Peter, the patron saint of Rome, is mentioned tens of thousands of times in late antique literature across various regions of Christendom. Numerous churches were dedicated to him, inscriptions ...
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Throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a vast corpus of potentially dangerous texts was dismissed as unorthodox and unauthorised by Christian scholars and policy makers. These texts exposed ...
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Modern readers experience imperial constitutions through vast multiauthor compilations like the Codices Justinianus et Theodosianus. These compilations organize the writings of many different people by subject matter, and thus present ...
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