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Flourished c.1301 - c.1400
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire • Eastern Orthodoxy • canon law • law
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Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
John Scholasticus
Syrian theologian and jurist
Theodore Balsamon
Byzantine scholar
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Theodosius Of Alexandria
Egyptian patriarch
Euthymius I
Orthodox patriarch
Saint Germanus I
Byzantine patriarch
Michael Psellus
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Bessarion
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St. Maximus the Confessor
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Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1183–85, effigy on a gold solidus; in the British Museum.
Andronicus I Comnenus
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Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Leontius Of Byzantium
Byzantine monk and theologian
Nicholas III
patriarch of Constantinople
John Of Scythopolis
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Theognostos
Byzantine monk