The Pisan scholar Hugh Eteriano was adviser on western church affairs to Manuel Comnenus, and lived in Constantinople from c.1165 -82, where he encountered an heretical group among the western inhabitants of the city, which prompted him to write the Contra Patarenos. Patarenes was an alternative name for Cathars, and this text is of considerable importance to an understanding of the relationship between the western Cathars and older Byzantine dualist movements. Hugh's treatise is here published for the first time in a text established from the two extant manuscripts, together with a...
The Pisan scholar Hugh Eteriano was adviser on western church affairs to Manuel Comnenus, and lived in Constantinople from c.1165 -82, where he encoun...
This extraordinary collection of personal stories chronicles the deterioration of the innocence of a young man. This often funny, moving autobiographical fiction covers Jim's life from age four to twenty eight. It provides a deeply personal insight into the development of his character - often under extreme duress.
This extraordinary collection of personal stories chronicles the deterioration of the innocence of a young man. This often funny, moving autobiographi...
