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24. What had taken place was, in reality, the beginning of mighty disasters in the future, and what was, to all appearances, the foundation...

26. Let me now give some account of this man.**50 His family, on his father’s side, was altogether insignificant and completely obscure. His father...

He was expert in the conception and planning of unlikely designs. He showed no consideration for benefactors, no gratitude to anyone for friendship or...

There before the cross they laid him. Then they began earnestly to implore God, the Maker of all things, to bring them consolation and...

Insights into Professions and Stories Exploring Artistic Narratives on Tombstones Nautical and Military Tributes Discovering the profession of the deceased is often possible through elements on tombstones....

Beautiful spot near EphesusThence they sailed for Syracuse, a city in the same country. Sailing from Syracuse, they crossed the Adriatic and reached the...

Then they made for the town called Tiberias. It stands at the edge of the sea on which our Lord walked dry¬shod and where...

On the very place where Christ was baptized and where they now baptize there stands a little wooden cross: a little stream of water...

Antiochus Strategos: The Sack of Jerusalem (614)Byzantine law granted toleration to Jews , although there were occasional attempts at forced conversion , but there...

Michael IV 1034 – 1041 1. Such was the manner of Romanus’s death, after a reign of five and a half years. The empress Zoe,...