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John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes

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John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes - Skylitzes, John, and Wortley, John
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John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the ...

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John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes 2012, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107404748

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John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes 2010, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521767057

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