“In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
“In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety. — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
