Roger Pearse

In my previous post about this obscure 11th century Byzantine bishop, I gave the 1959 entry by Beck.

T.

My apologies to those who have found that the Contact Form had ceased to work.

An email from David Wilmshurst, who has continued his work on texts relating to the Church of the East.

In my first post about Demetrius of Cyzicus (fl. ca. 1028) I wrote that the Greek work against the Jacobites etc.,… … was composed between 1026-28 by the deeply obscure Demetrius, Metropolitan of Cyzicus.

Our obscure 11th century Greek cleric, Demetrius, Metropolitan of Cyzicus, had the good fortune to have a poem addressed to him by Christopher of Mytilene.

Independent scholar Alex Hourani tells me that he has created a Greek text from manuscripts of a largely unpublished medieval text.

An interesting post on Twitter by Gregory Crane of the Perseus project leads to some interesting finds: The Scaife viewer build on work by @PonteIneptique.

I have a pile of things to write about on my desktop, but domestic trivia keep getting in the way.

Luke J.

I’ve just reluctantly decided to transfer the tertullian.org domain to another registrar.

The Acts of St Phileas record the events of 305 AD during the Great Persecution under Diocletian.

A truly interesting and very well-written article has appeared in Early Medieval History this month.

Modern apocrypha are fun!

In Bede’s Ecclesiastical History book 3 chapter 29, he quotes a letter from Pope Vitalian to the Anglo-Saxon King Oswiu, encouraging him to adopt the new simpler Roman calculation of the date of Easter instead of the Irish method using the 89-year cycle of

There are two long encomia / eulogies on St Colluthus.

I’ve started to look at the modern critical edition of the texts around St Colluthus.

St Colluthus was a Coptic physician who was tried and executed in 314 AD.

An interesting email this morning from W.