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 vårt 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 på svenskt spr�[...]