The Eulogius Corpus

Eulogius (d. 859), a priest living under Islamic rule in Córdoba, is our principal source for the so-called "Córdoban martyrs' movement" (850-859), in the course of which forty-eight Christians were decapitated for religious offenses against Islam. The majority of the victims were condemned for blasphemy ...

Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle

and the circulation of historical knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam

Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thriving cosmopolitan centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous cities of the ...

Three political voices from the age of Justinian

Agapetus, 'advice to the emperor dialogue on political science' Paul the Silentiary, 'Description of Hagia Sophia'

Translated with an introduction and notes by Peter N. Bell. This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction brings together three important works. All three texts cast great, if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position ...

The lives of the Eighth-Century Popes

(Liber Pontificalis): the ancient biographies of nine Popes from AD 715 to AD 817

In "The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes" Raymond Davis continues from the year AD 715, where his "Book of the Pontiffs" (revised edition, Liverpool, 2000) stopped, and deals with the next nine biographies from the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church down to AD 817 ...

The formularies of Angers and Marculf

two merovingian legal handbooks

Translated with an introduction and notes by Alice Rio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book offers the first full English translation of two major sources for the Merovingian kingdoms: the formularies of Angers and Marculf (sixth and seventh centuries). These collections of model legal documents, compiled by scribes as ...

Institutions of Divine and secular learning

and On the soul