Michael Psellos
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Michael Psellos or Psellus was a Byzantine monk, savant, writer, philosopher, imperial courtier, historian, and music theorist. He was born in 1017 or 1018, and is believed to have died in 1078, altho
Michael Psellos (left) with his student, Byzantine emperor Michael VII Doukas
Excerpt from Chronographia discussing empress Zoe's love of perfumes, 15th century copy
Compendium mathematicum, 1647
Rulers of the Byzantine Empire in the 11th century. Based on Chronographia.
University of Constantinople
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The Imperial University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the Palace Hall of Magnaura, was an Eastern Roman educational institution in Constantinople that could trace its origin
Michael Psellos
…at court. He became an influential political advisor to emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (reigned 1042–1055) and became the leading professor at the University of Constantinople, bearing the honorary title of "Chief of the Philosophers" (ὕπατος τῶν φιλοσόφων hypatos tōn philosophōn). Towards the end of Monomachos's reign, Psellos…
Surviving part of the Magnaura
Colossus of Barletta, statue identified with either Leo I, Marcian or Theodosius II, founder of the University of Constantinople.
Depiction of a philosophy lesson in the university from the 12th century Madrid Skylitzes.