The article I will be reviewing is Sacrifice and Pagan Belief in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantium by K. W. Harl. The article was published in the Past & Present academic journal in August 1990. The topic is what happened Pagan beliefs and the art of Pagan sacrifice starting around 300AD to around 600AD. K. W. Harl is writing this article to state that the conversion of Pagan beliefs and Pagan sacrifices to Christian beliefs and Christian values was a song, slow process that started in the late 300AD with Theodosius I ban of public and private sacrifices and ended in the late 600AD because of intense persecution and anti-Pagan leaders. He stresses that this process was NOT due to the loss of spirit on the Pagans part. The beginning of
