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"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried." Wrote G. K. Chesterton in his must-read book, What’s Wrong with the World. And it's a sentiment that must sit at the heart of every lover of Byzantium because it makes clear that the subject is not reducible to a hobby, a slice of specialised history for academics, a source of Procopius-esque gossip to titter at, but rather an attitude, a viewpoint, a pivot from which readers can realise there are far better civilisational routes to follow in the future than lazily prolonging the status quo.
The Byzantine Times is written for and by those who buy into this credo; those who want to see many of Byzantium's values catapulted into the 21st century in order to illuminate the way for a whole new generation.