Carl Dixon – författare

Carl Dixon’s journey through the twists and turns of a music performer’s life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.Though Carl’s road was rocky, it was still paved with gold. It has led from his early days with hard rockers Coney Hatch to tours and lasting friendships with huge acts like Iron Maiden. The ups and downs were meteoric. Carl became a member of the legendary bands The Guess Who and April Wine and then faced the hardest test of all: a horrific auto collision in Australia that left him in a coma, barely clinging to life.Strange Way to Live follows Carl’s progress, never faltering and sometimes comical, toward musical glory. Blind determination can lead one to some strange places. Carl’s took him through some of the biggest, smallest, and weirdest scenes in this vast country, and from the glory days of Canadian rock to the present day.

The Paulicians were perhaps the most curious threat to imperil the Roman Empire in the east. Their early history describes a reclusive and vulnerable community wandering throughout eastern Anatolia, yet two bouts of state-sponsored persecution during the ninth century sparked a militarised uprising that thrust this heretical menace onto the regional stage. At first, they raided the empire in concert with the emirates of Melitene and Tarsus, but even when Islamic support collapsed, they retained the strength to strike deep into Roman territory on their own. They were at the height of their power when the most important witness to the movement, Peter the Sicilian, travelled to their stronghold of Tephrikē to negotiate a prisoner exchange on behalf of Basil I. This mission triggered the composition of an unusual collection of works, including an extended history of the Paulicians, and three sermons and florilegia that assail the tenets of their heresy. By providing a full English translation of this collection for the first time, this volume introduces and examines these works, while shedding light on the authorship, authenticity, and reliability of an oeuvre that has often provoked controversy.