patristic · treatise · c. 550 · Greek
Cosmas the India-voyager set out to prove the world flat and preserved, in passing, the era's best eyewitness census of eastern Christianity: churches in Male 'where the pepper grows', a bishop at Kalliana ordained from Persia, Christians on Taprobane. The Church of the East's reach, seen from the deck of a trading ship.
To: readers curious how far the gospel had sailed