C’est dans la médicine que Jean Chrysostome (environ 354-407), l’un des plus féconds Pères de l’Église, avait bien souvent puisé ses exemples et ses comparaisons. Ces informations qui sont insérées dans ses oeuvres jéttent ...

This article analyses the attitude of patriarch of Constantinople, Acacius, towards the usurpation of Basiliscus (475-476). Basiliscus took the power over in result of the palace plot iniciated by empress Verina, Leo I’s ...

The basic problem of this article limits itself to the question: How did the Greek Church historians of the 4th-6th centuries (Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, Theodorct and Evagrius) show the role and the place of the army ...

The article is devoted to the problem of legalization of usurpers’ power in Byzantium in IV-VI centuries. Action which usurpers took to fight for power was presented in the first part. As a rule pretenders to the throne ...

L’empereur Théodose II suscite des jugements contradictoires. Les uns le prennent pour un souverain faible, influencé par ses courtisans; pour les autres, malgré une certaine velléité, il reste capable de prendre une ...

John Malalas was one of the most famous Byzantine chroniclers. He was bom in Antioch in the 90s of the Vth and died in the 70s of the VIth century, in Constantinopole. He inserted into the work a series of literary ...

A quarrel about the title „ecumenical patriarch” was inseparably connected with struggle for primacy in Universal Church. This struggle was first started between Rome and Alexandria but in the middle of Vth century the ...

Dans l’article on compare le contenu de la chronique de Saint-Denis avec les sources grecques au sujet de la visite de Manuel II à Paris. Trois chroniquers: Doucas, Sphrantzes et Chalcocondyles transmirent peu de ...