The history of Russia is often considered as if that immense country had always been an isolated continent. However, at the time of its rise as a nation, it was politically a province of the Mongol Empire, whose capital was in Central Asia; and ecclesiastically, it was a dependency of the Orthodox P[...]
For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire-Constantinople, the New Rome,or Byzantium. The geographical division between the Eastern and Western Churches was only one manifestation of deeper rifts, characterized by a long history of conflic[...]
I en snabbt föränderlig värld, med en oöverblickbar rörelse av människor och information blir vÃ¥rt behov av tillförlitlig kunskap och översikt allt viktigare. När det gäller den ortodoxa kyrkan och den bysantinska världen har det varit sparsamt med grundläggande böcker pÃ¥ svenskt sprÃ[...]