A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

Sir Steven Runciman’s lapidary account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, now forty years old, was a lamentation for the civilisation and the people he loved: ‘In this story,’ he wrote, ...

[Council of Constantinople II (553): DS 421 ... It unfolds in the work of creation, the whole history of salvation after the fall, and the missions of the Son and the Spirit, which are continued ...