Daily Medieval

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...

To continue yesterday's post and talk about "re-orienting" wayward bishops with "wrong" ideas, we should first look ...

The Sixth Ecumenical Council was called to settle a matter that had bothered the Byzantine Church for several years. The issue was Monotheli...

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

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

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

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