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Flourished c.1301 - c.1400
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire • Eastern Orthodoxy • canon law • law
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
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
Byzantine philosopher, theologian, and statesman
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
St. Maximus the Confessor
Byzantine theologian
Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1183–85, effigy on a gold solidus; in the British Museum.
Andronicus I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
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
Byzantine theologian
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar