Tradition tells that Constantine the Great was miraculously converted to Christianity. One evening, in the year 332 A.D., at Rome, while he was in the midst of a bloody battle with Maxentius, the empire of the western part
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In the realm of historical fiction, there is no better author than Stephen R. Lawhead. This is twofold when he writes about the Celtic peoples in the dark ages. His attention to detail and extensive knowledge of the moral and social structure of the post-Roman world provides a unique reality. Byzantium (HarperPrism, 1996) is the […]
Byzantium Stephen Lawhead Aidan, a young Irish monk, one of the thirteen brothers who had chosen Byzantium for a long pilgrimage, where they would bring a gift to the emperor, a precious present. Aidan grew up in a convent and hasn’t been to many places, so he’s happy and excited about this opportunity to see […]
William Butler Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium” is concerned with the passage of time, and how someone can become eternal. Yeats lived from 1865 to 1939; so this poem, which was written in 1926, reflects his fears about aging and becoming irrelevant. The narrator of this poem is concerned with the idea of the human/animal […]