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Showing posts with label Constans II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constans II. Show all posts
31 August 2025

Maximus the Confessor

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The pull of a religious and contemplative life drew many men and women to it from many spheres. Maximus (c.580 - 662), for instance, was a c...
18 January 2025

Byzantine Economy

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Constantine IV had other problems besides potential usurpers and Umayyads. Because his father, Constans II , had moved the administrative se...
17 January 2025

Constantine IV

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Constantine's father, Constans II , died in 668 while in Sicily, and immediately some Sicilian bishops wanted someone else to take over,...
16 January 2025

Constans II

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Constans continued to do things that were uncommon for other Byzantine Emperors. He was the first Byzantine Emperor to visit Rome (in 663) s...
15 January 2025

Monothelitism

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The Western Roman Empire and Eastern Byzantine Empire had many differences over the centuries. Some of the biggest differences were religiou...
14 January 2025

Constans Moves Westward

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Yesterday's post mentioned Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace under King Clotaire III, distrusting Adrian of Canterbury because of Adrian's...
13 January 2025

Adrian of Canterbury

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Adrian (also called Hadrian) was born in North Africa sometime prior to 637; Bede referred to him as a Berber . He became a well-known teach...
10 January 2014

Traveling to Canterbury

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St. Adrian of Canterbury Yesterday's post on the Leiden Glossary mentioned its two chief contributors, Adrian of Canterbury and The...