This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Chr

This third volume in the pioneering A People's History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of t

Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first