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Flourished c.1051 - c.1100
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire
Procopius
Byzantine historian
John VI Cantacuzenus, detail from an illuminated manuscript, 14th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Gr. 1242).
John VI Cantacuzenus
Byzantine emperor
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
Nicephorus Gregoras
Byzantine scholar
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Nicetas Choniates
Byzantine historian
Nicephorus Bryennius
Byzantine statesman and historian
Anna Comnena
Byzantine princess
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Laonicus Chalcocondyles
Byzantine historian
Michael Critobulus
Turkish historian
John Cinnamus
Byzantine historian
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
Joseph Genesius
Byzantine scholar
Menander Protector
Byzantine historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
J.B. Bury
British scholar
George Finlay
British historian
Narses
Syrian theologian
Justinian I
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor

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