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Also Known As Theodore the Reader
Flourished c.501 - c.600
Notable Works “Historia tripartita”
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire • Eastern Orthodoxy
John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Leo III
Leo III
Byzantine emperor
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Theophylactus Simocattes
Byzantine historian
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
George Pachymeres
Byzantine scholar
Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 1183–85, effigy on a gold solidus; in the British Museum.
Andronicus I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
Eustathius of Thessalonica
Greek Orthodox metropolitan
Michael Choniates
Byzantine historian
Matthew Blastares
Greek theologian and scholar
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Michael Glycas
Byzantine historian and theologian
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
Joshua the Stylite
Christian monk
Constantine Manasses
Byzantine chronicler
Anthony Of Novgorod
Russian archbishop