Orthodox Churches 42

Prior to becoming Pope Pius II, Aeneas Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, was a Italo-German politician working the Imperial circuit. He career brought him into the service of both papal legates and the……続きを見る

St. Onuphrius was one of the Egyptian Desert Fathers who is helped lay the foundation of Eastern spirituality and monasticism in the 4th and 5th centuries, around the time that Christianity was emer……続きを見る

In 1454, Casimir, the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania was approached by the Prussian Confederation for aid against the knights of the Teutonic Order. He granted them the proposition of se……続きを見る

St. Edmund the Martyr was a Christian martyr and the king of East Anglia in the 9th century. Facts concerning the life of St. Edmund are few and far between, as the kingdom of East Anglia was devast……続きを見る

Carloman II, during his brief tenure as the teenage king of West Francia attempted to oversee the reformation of the Frankish church in 884. Enclosed here is a short collection of the ecclesiastical……続きを見る

St. Dunstan was an English saint and perhaps the most famous Archbishop of Canterbury. During the course of his lifetime, he was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop ……続きを見る

This is a short collection of documents from the reign of the German Emperor Otto I the Great. This collection includes: the Constitution of Frankfurt (951), Proceedings of the Augustan assembly (95……続きを見る

This is a collection of the forty-seven original statutes passed for the continuity of Roman law in the Burgundian realm. It has been attributed to the last king of the Burgundians, Gondomar. Howeve……続きを見る

The Synod of Ingelheim was called by Otto I the Great, in the then church of Saint Remigius in the German city of Ingelheim. Being summoned at the behest of Pope Agapetus II. It's primary goal was t……続きを見る

At various point during the tenure of the Carolingian dynasty, it was necessary to resolve dynastic disputes through the intervention of ecclesiastical synods with the public task of electing a mona……続きを見る

The Fourth Council of Constantinople is the eighth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held in the city of Constantinople from 869 to 870. The council was called by Emperor Basil I the Macedo……続きを見る

In 'The Autobiography of Madame Guyon', Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon beautifully narrates her spiritual journey and deep devotion to God during a tumultuous period in France. This classic ……続きを見る

Collected here are two Latin letters, the correspondence between Coenwulf and Pope Leo III regarding the episcopal districts of the Anglo-Saxon church. These letters would lead to the creation of th……続きを見る

Non Parum Animus Noster is a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander III in September of 1171 to promote a military venture against the Estonian tribes. He calls upon the various Christian kingdoms of t……続きを見る

This work, frequently misattributed to St. Augustine of Hippo, is a biblical exegesis of the problem of pain and civil collapse. This theme is not arising out of a cultural vacuum. Our author, the 5……続きを見る

Boethius of Dacia, or more accurately Boethius of Dania, was a 13th century Danish philosopher who was inspired by the growing Aristotelian revolution taking place in European universities. For Boet……続きを見る

Ex commisso nobiswas a papal bull issued on July 7, 1136 by Pope Innocent II in Pisa. His election six years earlier prompted a schism in the Western Church. The Polish church supported the appointm……続きを見る

Magnus VI, King of Norway, develop in his lifetime the reputation for the amending of Norway's ancient legal code, and granting specific definitions for the role of the king, his role privileges, pr……続きを見る

This is a collection of eleven relatively brief documents, mostly of papal origin, which deal with the establishment of the church in Scandinavia. They deal with the establishment of the mission at ……続きを見る

This work, which survives only in a fragmentary form, belongs to the Syriac church father, St. Theodore of Mopsuestia, 5th century bishop of Antioch, dealing with the questions of Christian morality……続きを見る

In this letter Pope Stephen V informs Svatopluk I, the king of the Slavs (Moravians), along with all the nobles and people of the nation, that God chose the institution of the papacy to be be his pr……続きを見る

Magnus Haakonsson was King of Norway from 1263 to 1280, and the forefather of the modernization and nationalization of the Norwegian law-code, after which he is known as "Magnus the Law-mender". Dur……続きを見る

This appears to be a work of the 11th century Catholicos, Melchizedek I, who makes an inventory of those things that are in his possession as patriarch over the country, and relates what he would li……続きを見る

Industriae tuae is a papal bull of Pope John VIII, issued in June of 880, which the Pope sent to Prince Svätopluk as a reaction to the Great Moravian delegation being sent to Rome. This document leg……続きを見る

In this work, Boethius discusses the question of the eternity of the world, whether it is a permanent fixture, and therefore static, or it has a distinctive beginning and end. Boethius employs Arist……続きを見る

This is a collection of seventeen years from the German king, Louis II, relating to his dealings with the Slavic tribes who occupy his eastern frontier. Most of these letters are works of confirmati……続きを見る

Révélés par son disciple Sophrony, la vie et les écrits de Silouane (1866-1938), moine russe du mont Athos, ont touché le coeur et changé l'existence d'innombrables personnes, bien au-delà des front……続きを見る

This study explores Kondakarnoie Pienie, a musical phenomenon that flourished in Kievan Rus’ from the 11th-13th centuries and is preserved in only five manuscripts. Stimulated by the global digitiza……続きを見る

Nieuw ontdekte correspondentie van Oepke Noordmans die de bekende theoloog beter in beeld brengt. Het leven heeft veel meegebracht is een verzameling nieuw ontdekte brieven van en naar theoloog Oepk……続きを見る

Hyperechios's Exhortation to the Monks for the first time in English translation Hyperechios is a little-known monk of the fourth to fifth centuries, who is thought to have lived in Roman Palestine,……続きを見る