The Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, also referred to as the Bonn Corpus, is a monumental fifty-volume series of primary sources for the study of Byzantine history, published in the German city
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
Text (the History of Nikephoros Gregoras) from the CSHB
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Byzantine literature is the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders. In its early period, it was a form of late antique literature, and late
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
…50: Zosimus, ed. Bekker (Bonn, 1837) Byzantine Literature Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae…
The Alexiad, a history by Anna Komnene, in a 12th-century manuscript. Kept in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
An illumination of a scene from the Skylitzes Chronicle, depicting a Thracesian woman killing a Varangian who tried to rape her, whereupon his comrades praised her and gave her his possessions.
A Byzantine Gospel of the 13th century, it shows the increasing trend towards the use of Ivory as an artistic tool.
A page from a 16th-century edition of the vast Byzantine encyclopaedia, the Suda.