John Skylitzes: a Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057 Skylitzes John
John Skylitzes: a Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057 Skylitzes John This book was first published in 2010. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of…
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John Skylitzes: a Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057 Skylitzes John
This book was first published in 2010. 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. 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.
This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.