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    Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης, translit. Michaḗl Attaleiátēs, Byzantine Greek: [mixaˈil atːaliˈatis]; c. 1022 – 1080) was...
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    London{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Michael Psellos. Chronographia. Michael Attaleiates. The Histories. Pseudo-John Skylitzes. Scylitzes...
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    in the 1070s by the Byzantine historian Michael Attaleiates and dedicated to Nikephoros himself. Attaleiates is the primary contemporary source for Nikephoros's...
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    Michael Psellos or Psellus (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ψελλός, romanized: Michaḗl Psellós, Byzantine Greek: [mixaˈil pseˈlːos]) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant,...
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    group is in Byzantine historiography in the work of Michael Attaleiates (1022–1080). Attaleiates mentions the term Albanoi twice and the term Arbanitai...
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    of the civil bureaucracy, judging by the comments of Psellos and Michael Attaleiates. [Isaac Komnenos] was eager to lose no time in cutting out the dead...
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  • be intended in a purely geographical sense. In the 11th century, Michael Attaleiates called the Rus' Myrmidons, but this usage did not catch on. According...
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    29 June 1072 in Kotyaion. According to Attaleiates, the emperor was led away, pleading for mercy. Per Attaleiates, "when he arose, his eyes were drenched...
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  • titles as protoproedros, protovestiarios and megas domestikos, which Michael Attaleiates clarifies as being the post of domestikos ton scholon of the East...
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  • father-in-law), Bryennios made use of the works of Michael Psellos, John Skylitzes and Michael Attaleiates. As might be expected, his views are biased by...
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    Attaleia; Tsolakis, “Aus dem Leben des Michael Attaleiates,” 5–7; Kazhdan, “The Social Views of Michael Attaleiates,” 58 both argued for Constantinopolitan...
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    XXVII. Markle 1978, p. 483. Fox 1973, pp. 76–79. 11th century, Michael Attaleiates, The History, A.1047 6th century, Agathias Scholasticus, Histories...
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    importance in later Byzantine times. The 11th-century Byzantine historian Michael Attaleiates owned property in Raidestos which he described in his will. From...
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  • importance after the 11th century. The Byzantine official and historian Michael Attaleiates, writing in the second half of the 11th century, claimed to have...
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  • affairs Michael Psellus (1018 – c. 1078), Greek politician and historian Marianus Scotus (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler Michael Attaleiates (c. 1015...
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    Alwerikon an attestation of the same population as the Illyrian Albanoi. Michael Attaleiates (1022-1080) mentions the term Albanoi twice and the term Arbanitai...
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    Library of Alexandria Artemidorus, diviner and dream interpreter Michael Attaleiates, Byzantine chronicler Niketas Choniates, Byzantine historian Maximus...
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    consisted of 50,000 men. Skylitzes' contemporaries, the former officials Michael Attaleiates and Kekaumenos, agree that by demobilizing these soldiers, Constantine...
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  • Symeon Logothete Theophanes Continuatus 11th century Michael Attaleiates George Kedrenos Michael Psellos John Skylitzes John Xiphilinus Yahya of Antioch...
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  • arms, whereupon the enraged Pechenegs killed him and, according to Michael Attaleiates, opened his belly, cut off his arms and legs and placed them in it...
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  • Byzantine chronicler". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-25. Lapidge, Michael (1996). Anglo-Latin Literature, Vol.1, 600-899. Bloomsbury Publishing....
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    Byzantine emperors from the death of Nikephoros I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057; it continues the chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor. There...
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    Getae were thus wrongly attributed to Goths. Arne Søby Christensen and Michael Kulikowski argue that in his Getica Jordanes also supplemented his Gothic...
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  • At birth, Anna was betrothed to Constantine Doukas, the son of Emperor Michael VII and Maria of Alania. The two were the heirs to the empire until sometime...
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    the protovestes and former judge recorded by the Greek historian Michael Attaleiates as having been captured by Alp Arslan's Seljuks at the Battle of...
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  • Arbonitai). He cites Polybius (as he does many other times in Ethnica). Michael Attaleiates (1022-1080) mentions the term Albanoi twice and the term Arbanitai...
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    insidiis. 4. De sententiis). In The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius, John Michael Moore (CUP, 1965) provides a useful summary of the commission by Porphyrogenitus...
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    a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came...
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    Watch. Two other knowledgeable contemporaries, the former officials Michael Attaleiates and Kekaumenos, agree with Skylitzes that by demobilising these soldiers...
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    Roman emperors. Born in Constantinople, John Kantakouzenos was the son of Michael Kantakouzenos, governor of the Morea; Donald Nicol speculates that he may...
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