[7] Researching this question leads to a seeming paradox. On one hand we find a tremendous richness of Marian thought in the liturgy, but on the other hand a virtual absence of specifically ...

During the eleventh century, chroniclers in Kiev learned about the conversion of the Roman Empire by celebrating a series of distinctively Byzantine liturgical feasts. When the services concluded, and ...

This is the first comprehensive study of marriage rituals in the Eastern Mediterranean world of Byzantine Christianity. Using a large corpus of unedited liturgical manuscripts as well as other ...

The most beautiful Byzantine icons that have been part of the private collection of the Popes for centuries will be displayed ...

Byzantine Greek is still the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox church. More from Stratos Theodosiou, astrophysicist and president of the Greek Physicists Association, who has written more ...

In the Byzantine Empire, it was known as the rite of Divine Liturgy, which is still practiced in Eastern Orthodox churches today. Much of the inside of the chamber rooms is still decorated with ...