Assos and Troy
Just beyond the “Museum of Olive Oil” at Kazdagı, several historical sites beckon for exploration. One of the most significant among them is Assos,...
The Nestorians imagined Christ’s divinity
Each of the three positions was distinct. The Nestorians imagined Christ’s divinity as a kind of benign possession, a god’s mind in a mortal’s...
Athanasius of Alexandria
Theodosius’s intervention in support of the long guerrilla war that Athanasius of Alexandria fought on behalf of Jesus the god ensured that the hard...
Alexandria Antioch and Constantinople
In a few cities, the more authoritarian and centralized future began to be enacted. The great cities of the east—Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople, and...
Ibn Battuta part 85
But no sense of the historian’s high vocation and essential impartiality could damp the racy individualism of Psellus’s approach nor the delicate artistry of...
Ibn Battuta part 84
In his introduction to the Chronographia Psellus explains that he had often been pressed to write a history of his own times and that...
Ibn Battuta part 83
Constantine Ducas when he became Emperor in 1059 had not lost touch with the friend of forty years ago and he eventually showed his...
Ibn Battuta part 82
Chronographia
The two predominating passions of Psellus’s life were to get on in the world and to promote scholarship and learning. This first characteristic is...
Ibn Battuta part 81
Whatever his father’s claims to aristocratic forebears, Michael Psellus grew up in the milieu of a middle-class family. His writings, and particularly his...
Ibn Battuta part 80
When I first undertook the work, the late Dr. W. H. D. Rouse gave me sound advice, and as I neared the end, Professor...
