Michael Attaleiates
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Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates was a Byzantine chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the second half of the eleventh century. He was
Autograph Signature of Michael Attaleiates from the Manuscript of the Diataxis.
John Skylitzes
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John Skylitzes, commonly Latinized as Ioannes Scylitzes, was a Byzantine historian of the late 11th century.
Michael Attaleiates
…the second half of the eleventh century. He was a younger contemporary (possibly even a student) of Michael Psellos and likely an older colleague of John Skylitzes, the two other Byzantine historians of the eleventh century whose work survives. Michael Attaleiates was probably a native of Attaleia (now Antalya…
Varangian Guardsmen, an illumination from the 11th century chronicle of John Skylitzes.
Depiction of Greek fire in the Madrid Skylitzes