Title:
Fourteen Byzantine rulers : the Chronographia of Michael Psellus
Author:
Psellus, Michael.
ISBN:
9780140441697
Uniform Title:
Chronographia. English
Edition:
Revised edition.
Publication Information:
Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, ©1966.
Physical Description:
396 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Contents:
Map of the Byzantine Empire at the death of Basil II, in 1025 -- Map of Constantinople -- The chronographia. Basil II (Bulgaroctonus), 976-1025 -- Constantine VIII, 1025-8 -- Romanus III (Argyrus), 1028-34 -- Michael IV (Paphlagon), 1034-41 -- Michael V (Calaphates), 1041-2 -- Theodora, 1042 -- Zoe and Theodora, 1042 -- Constantine IX (Monomachus), 1042-55 -- Theodora, 1055-6 -- Michael VI (Stratioticus), 1056-7 -- Isaac Comnenus, 1057-9 -- Constantine X (Ducas), 1059-67 -- Eudocia, 1067 -- Romanus IV (Diogenes), 1068-71 -- Michael VI (Parapinaces), 1071-8 -- Appendices [include] The Macedonian House; The House of Comnenus. The House of Ducas; George Maniaces; [and] Greek fire.
Abstract:
A translation of the Chronographia, which forms the principal source of the history of the Eastern Empire during the period (A.D. 976-1078) when Byzantium declined from a military power to an effete bureaucracy. The Christian scholar, Michael Psellus, who was adviser, friend and tutor to successive emperors, used his first-hand acquaintance with the politics of the imperial court to write a memoir of his own times. A keen student of Plato and the Greeks, turned his account into a work of art which vividly illustrates the Byzantine way of life.
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