We sing thy praises as the gem and fairness of the Church, and as a diadem and pattern of all Christian queens, O all-lauded and divinely-crowned Theodora; for in bringing back the icons to their ...

Together, Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora I transformed the Byzantine landscape. The ranks of Eastern Orthodox saints are filled with celibates and monastics, but not all Orthodox saints ...

Franklin and Eleanor. Juan Perón and Evita. Bill and Hillary. Husband and wife political teams are a common theme in modern history. Justinian “The Great” was born about 482 in a peasant village in ...

Rule by women was less common, but not unheard of in the Byzantine Empire—or in the ancient world for that matter! As such, ancient coins frequently depicted women. The National Numismatic Collection ...

Christ the Bridegroom Monastery in Burton, Ohio, is a Byzantine-rite community within the Catholic Church. Recently, it celebrated its fifth anniversary, as well as the beatification of Miriam Teresa ...

Betancourt is a professor at University of California, Irvine, and author of Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages available now from Princeton University Press.