The death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age. His vivid and forceful chronicle, full of psychological insight and deep understanding of power politics, is a historical and literary document of the first importance. Recent scholars have shattered forever the view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire; Psellus, a man of striking refinement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its best the Byzantine way of life.

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Psellus, Michael

Historical

Penguin Classics

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Pselli De Victus Ratione Ad Constantinum Imperatorem Libri II (1529) (Latin Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Manardi, Giovanni

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Compendium Mathematicum: Aliaque Tractatus Eodem Pertinentes (1647) (Latin Edition)

De Operatione Daemonum Cum Notis Gaulmini Curante Jo. Fr. Boissonade: Accedunt Inedita Opuscula Pselli (Romanian Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Nabu Press

Tzetzae Allegoriae Iliadis (Ancient Greek Edition)

Tzetzes, John

History & Criticism

Problèmes Et Solutions Touchant Les Premiers Principes: Avec Le Tableau Sommaire Des Doctrines Des Chaldéens de Michel Psellus, Volume 3 (French Edition)

Damaskios, Michael

Chaignet, Anthelme-Edouard

History

Problèmes Et Solutions Touchant Les Premiers Principes: Avec Le Tableau Sommaire Des Doctrines Des Chaldéens De Michel Psellus, Volume 11203 (French Edition)

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