Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus by Michael Psellus

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus

Michael Psellus with E.R.A. Sewter (Translator)

400 pages • first pub 1078 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history tense slow-paced
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The death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the...

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