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Born c.752
Died c.818 • Samothrace • Greece
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire
Role In Iconoclastic Controversy
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Saint Germanus I
Byzantine patriarch
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Michael Glycas
Byzantine historian and theologian
St. John of Damascus
Christian saint
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Saint Theodore Studites
Byzantine saint
Matthew Blastares
Greek theologian and scholar
Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
Theophilus
Theophilus
Byzantine emperor
Procopius
Byzantine historian
Michael Psellus
Byzantine philosopher, theologian, and statesman
Theophylactus Simocattes
Byzantine historian
George Pachymeres
Byzantine scholar
Macarius Bulgakov
Russian Orthodox metropolitan
John VI Cantacuzenus, detail from an illuminated manuscript, 14th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Gr. 1242).
John VI Cantacuzenus
Byzantine emperor

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