Unexpected Evidence concerning Gold Mining in Early Byzantium

<p class="1">The prayer in the liturgy of Basil for those condemned to the mines, taken to be a relic of  the time of pagan persecutions, is shown by Slavonic mss. to have addressed a continuing practice of the Christian emperors themselves.</p>

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tatyana I. Afanas’eva, Sergey A. Ivanov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University 2013-02-01
Series:Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Online Access:http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/14591