Archaeologists in Turkey have made a surprising discovery that challenges our understanding of early Christian practices in ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

“Byzantine history abounds in instances of men and women who refused to obey an emperor’s orders, mostly on religious grounds,” writes Kaldellis. With a single exception, popular uprisings ...

They have some congregants who grew up in the Latin rite, some who grew up Protestant, and some who grew up with no religion but learned about the Byzantine Catholic faith on their own.

The social position of Byzantine women is not easy to assess considering the vast reach of the empire and the many cultures it encompassed.