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    John Skylitzes, commonly Latinized as Ioannes Scylitzes (Greek: Ἰωάννης Σκυλίτζης, romanized: Iōánnēs Skylítzēs, Byzantine Greek: [i.oˈa.nis sc̠iˈlit.t͡sis];...
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  • Romanus Sclerus, brother of the emperor's mistress. According to Johannes Skylitzes, Romanus had even raped Maniakes' wife. In September 1042, Pardo arrived...
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    projects include, among other things, studies on the Sofia manuscript of Johannes Skylitzes, research on the settlements of Western merchants in Constantinople...
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  • Continuatus and John Skylitzes (who follows Continuatus) placing it around 877/78, but modern scholars place it in 886. Skylitzes even gives the leader...
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  • 1905. His most important work is Die Zusätze in der Handschrift des Johannes Skylitzes, published in 1906. A second edition was published later. The value...
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    date of this event is unknown. The chronology of the account of John Skylitzes seems to place it in 996, while Armenian sources place it in 991. Modern...
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    Skylitzes XI.1–2. Foss, Clive (2005). "Emperors named Constantine". Revue numismatique. 6 (161): 93–102. doi:10.3406/numi.2005.2594. John Skylitzes XI...
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  • The only source for the conflict is the history of John Skylitzes. According to Skylitzes, in 1024 a Rus' leader named Chrysocheir assembled 800 men...
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  • historian John Skylitzes, Agatha was a captive from Larissa, and the daughter of the magnate of Dyrrhachium, John Chryselios. Skylitzes explicitly refers...
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    Company. p. 115. Ostrogorsky 1969, p. 233. Ostrogorsky 1969, p. 261. Skylitzes, Ioannes (2010) [1100]. Synopsis of History. Translated by John Wortley...
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  • to Skylitzes' account, or run through by the spear of Samuel's son Gavril Radomir, as reported in a side note to the original manuscript of Skylitzes. Theophylact's...
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  • suggested sometime between 910 and 915. Later Byzantine chroniclers like John Skylitzes, Zonaras, and Kedrenos, claim that Basil was castrated as an adult, following...
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  • Constantinople from July 1001 to 1019. According to the history of John Skylitzes, he was a relative of the celebrated 9th-century patriarch Photius. In...
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    Παλαιολόγος Καντακουζηνός, Iōánnēs Ángelos Palaiológos Kantakouzēnós; Latin: Johannes Cantacuzenus; c. 1292 – 15 June 1383) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman, statesman...
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  • W. Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1808) Erich Trapp. "Johannes Xiphilinos der Jüngere." In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon...
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    Taron, p. 198.[? clarification needed] Rozen, p. 34. Skylitzes, p. 449 Skylitzes, pp. 449–450 Skylitzes, p. 450 Stephenson, P., The legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer...
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  • 900-c. 1024. Cambridge University Press. p. 597. ISBN 9780521364478. Skylitzes, John; Wortley, John (2010). A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057...
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  • held the post until his death in 998. According to the histories of John Skylitzes and Zonaras, he was extremely well educated, particularly in medical matters...
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  • in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos, followed by the works of John Skylitzes and Zonaras. Psellos writes of her only that: "Constantine while still...
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    Geschichtsschreibung : Untersuchungen zu den nachdionischen Quellen der Chronik des Johannes Zonaras. Munich, 1992. Banchich and Lane, Zonaras, 2009. Murray, H.J.R...
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    New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. pp. 283. ISBN 0-8135-0599-2. Skylitzes, John (c. 1057). Synopsis of Histories. Translated by John Wortley. Cambridge...
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  • or "Saïpes" of the Byzantine chroniclers, Theophanes Continuatus, John Skylitzes, and Genesios. The Byzantine chroniclers report that in c. 872/3, he sent...
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    the chroniclers Leo the Deacon and John Skylitzes imply that Theophano was responsible, and according to Skylitzes, she had been complicit in an earlier...
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    11th-century Byzantine historian John Skylitzes calls her a daughter of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria, but the annotations to Skylitzes by Bishop Michael of Duklja make...
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  • Paulician or Bogomil origin. According to a note on the history of John Skylitzes, the Bulgarian tsar Samuel married Chryselios's daughter Agatha, who was...
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  • encroachments by northern steppe peoples such as the Pechenegs and Kipchaks. John Skylitzes reports that Alda of Alania, after the death of her husband, "George of...
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  • later reused almost without change by the 11th-century historian John Skylitzes. The Byzantine chroniclers call Photios "a warlike and energetic fellow"...
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  • and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1275. ISBN 0-19-504652-8. Text Johannes Thurn (ed.) 2000, Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, Corpus Fontium Historiae...
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    chronology of his death, found both in Byzantine chroniclers (Genesios, John Skylitzes and Theophanes Continuatus) and older historiography and martyrology (cf...
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    Europe. Oxford University Press. pp. 68–83. ISBN 978-0-19-877938-4. Fried, Johannes (2015) [2009]. The Middle Ages. Translated by Peter Lewis. The Belknap...
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