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From the experience of female Western and Eastern monasticism in late antiquity, it is possible to know stories, names, thoughts of women who chose a community life dedicated to poverty, prayer, charity, even asceticism in the desert, whose value is today finally undisputed in the history of the early Church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural heritage, its perception and its narration tell us a lot about the identity of a people: some testimonies from the Byzantine Empire offer us an opportunity to reflect on the correlation between landscape and political affinity that is fully manifested in total and unconditional admiration for Constantinople and that reveals the favour of God in the realisation of a globalised community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideology of imperial power during the late Byzantine age shows an element of predestination in the choice of the new emperor, above all through rhetoric sources such as enchomiastic speeches. This meant that the criterion of imperial power's legitimisation was gradually diverted from popular election/acclamation to dynastic succession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]