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Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness, also known as The Harvest of Leisure) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Kenkō (兼好) between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre , along with The Pillow Book and the ...
By the late 14th century, the Ottomans laid their eyes on Thessalonica. The civil war in 1376-1382 weakened the Byzantines, allowing the Ottomans to expand their territories. Manuel II, the son of John V Palaiologos, rebelled against his father and established an independent regime in Thessalonica in November 1382. Maneul from the city as a ...
Admitting that there are stylistic problems between 2 Thessalonians and 1 Thessalonians, he argues that part of the problem is due to the composite nature of 2 Thessalonians. Murphy-O'Connor, along with many others scholars, argues that the current text of 2 Thessalonians is the product of merging two or more authentic letters of Paul.
[11]: 95 Thessalonica was an important city populated largely by Nicene Christians, most of whom would have been totally innocent of the crime, and Theodosius and his advisors would have known that. In Doležal's view, Theodosius must have listened to advice from the counselors in Milan with him, but what advice he received is unclear.
The Edict of Thessalonica (Greek: Έδικτο της Θεσσαλονίκης), issued on 27 February AD 380 by Theodosius I, made Nicene Christianity [note 1] the state church of the Roman Empire. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It condemned other Christian creeds such as Arianism as heresies of "foolish madmen," and authorized their punishment .
The problem was finally settled through the wide-ranging land redistribution campaign undertaken by the governments of Eleftherios Venizelos. During World War I , during the National Schism in 1916–17, Thessaly served as a buffer zone between the pro- Entente Provisional Government of National Defence , led by Venizelos in Thessaloniki, and ...
Theodorus Gaza (Greek: Θεόδωρος Γαζῆς, Theodoros Gazis; Italian: Teodoro Gaza; Latin: Theodorus Gazes), also called Theodore Gazis or by the epithet Thessalonicensis [2] (in Latin) and Thessalonikeus [3] (in Greek) (c. 1398 – c. 1475), was a Greek humanist [4] and translator of Aristotle, one of the Greek scholars who were the leaders of the revival of learning in the 15th ...
According to the city's metropolitan bishop, Symeon (in office 1416/17–1429), both he and Despot Andronikos sent repeated pleas for aid to Constantinople, but the imperial government was short of resources and preoccupied with its own problems. Eventually, a single unnamed commander was sent to the city, but he brought neither men nor money ...