B32

He saw his moment and sought to take it, but in the end was never ruthless enough and never successful enough. He approached Constantinople with a large force spread out to fill the peninsula...

Even though would-be moderates controlled both Rome and Constantinople, their respective definitions of moderation fell on different parts of the spectrum. As long as they could not agree, the emperor of Constantinople and his...

And so a third position emerged, insisting on a “both-and” solution, asserting both the godhead and the manhood of Jesus at the same time. Jesus was divine and human, of two natures, conjoined, indissoluble;...

Constantine caught his breath in a gasp of admiration as a sleek galley rounded a point below them and came into their range of vision. Its oars kicked up a spray, which the sun...

“You can thank Galerius for that,” Marios told him. “With your father allied to the House of Maximian by marriage, our new Caesar feared that too much power would be concentrated in the West....

“Now what is all this about?” Marios eased himself into a chair, grimacing from the pain in his leg. “Have you been snooping into your father’s affairs, boy?”“You woke me up last night with...