Chapter VI – Byzantium
One of the oddities Byzantine studies is that it has long attracted homosexual scholars, but virtually none of them have written about Byzantine homosexuality....
Rejecting the commentaries
But the Mishnah, or as they call it the second tradition, we prohibit entirely. For it is not part of the sacred books, nor...
APPENDIX NOVELLA 146 OF JUSTINIAN
8.II.553. Nov.146. Justinian to Areobindas, P.P.A Permission granted to the Hebrews to read the Sacred Scriptures according to Tradition, in Greek, Latin or any...
Might be expected when attacked by a fever
But in the case of some the pestilence did not come on in this way, but they saw a vision in a dream and...
Subject to the ruler of the Bulgarians
The rulers of the Pechenegs and Magyars are the only independent rulers to be accorded the title archontes. In contrast, and also in accordance...
Constantine VIII
Constantine VIII 1025—1028On the death of Basil, his brother Constantine became emperor for the second time. There was no opposition. As a matter of...
Compassionately embrace his victim
His anger, too, was not lasting, like that of his brother Basil. He quickly relented and was terribly downcast at what he had done....
Commanding Theodorus to take charge
And it fell to the lot of the emperor, as was natural, to make provision for the trouble. He therefore detailed soldiers from the...
Different results with different patients
For example, while some were helped by batlling, others were harmed in no less degree. And of those who received no care many died,...
Everybody pitied them no less than the sufferers
And those who were attending them were in a state of constant exhaustion and had a most difficult time of it throughout. For this...
