Routledge, 2017. — 182 p. — (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, 22). The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE, a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional...
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984. — xxix+441 p. — (Byzantine Texts in Translation) — ISBN: 0-8143-1764-2. Translated by Harry J. Magoulias. O City of Byzantium is the first English translation of a history which chronicles the period of Byzantine history from 1118 to 1207. The historian Niketas Choniates provides an eye-witness account of the inexorable events that...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985. — 380 p. — (Dumbarton Oaks Texts, Book 9). Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready armies and secure borders. To this end, experienced commanders compiled practical handbooks of military strategy. Three such manuals are presented here. "The Anonymous Byzantine Treatise...
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975. — 346 p. — ISBN: 0-8143-1540-2. This is a book that is written by the ancient Byzantine historian Doukas. The first name and date of birth of Doukas is unclear. His grandfather, a supporter of John Kantakuzenos, fled to the sultan of Smyrna in 1345 and befriended his son Isa. Doukas was probably born at the start of the 15th century...
Translated into English by F. J. Hamilton, D.D. and E. W. Brooks, M.A. — London: Methuen & CO, 1899. The earliest extant copy of the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor is included in the late 6th century manuscript, British Library Manuscript #17,202. It has been published by Dr. Land under the title of Zachariae Ep. Mitylenes aliorumque scripta historica Graece...
Translated by Anthony Kaldellis. — Harvard University Press, 2014. — 560 p. Among Greek histories of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the work of Laonikos (ca. 1430–ca. 1465) has by far the broadest scope. Born to a leading family of Athens under Florentine rule, he was educated in the classics at Mistra by the Neoplatonist philosopher Plethon. In the 1450s, Laonikos set out...
Sofia: "St. Kliment Ohridski" University Press, 2014. - 914 p. — (University Library. No. 512). — ISBN: 978-954-07-3882-6. Preface: Zographou and Acta Athoa Bibliographical Abbreviations General Bibliography Chronology of Zographou from 980 to 1600 List of Zographou Estates Inside Mount Athos List of Zographou Estates Outside Mount Athos Hegoumenoi, Protoi and Monks of...
Harvard University Press, 2010. - 274 p. By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state. Faithfully rendered here in blunt and idiomatic English, Prokopios' tell-all is as shocking today as...
Translated by H. B. Dewing; Revised and Modernized, with an Introduction and Notes, by Anthony Kaldellis; Maps and Genealogies by Ian Mladjov. — Hackett Publishing Company, 2014. — 680 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62466-170-9; ISBN: 978-1-62466-171-6. A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At...
/ Translated by John Wortley, with Introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin and Notes by Jean-Claude Cheynet. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 492 + xxxiii p. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and...
This book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century,...
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0-87023-190-8. George Sphrantzes , also Phrantzes or Phrantza (Greek: Γεώργιος Σφραντζής or Φραντζής; 1401 – c. 1478) was a late Byzantine Greek historian and Imperial courtier. He was an attendant to Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, protovestiarites ("Lord of the Imperial Wardrobe") under John VIII Palaiologos,...
Melbourne, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1986. — 413 p. A Translation by Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys and Roger Scott with Brian Croke, Jenny Ferber, Simon Franklin, Alan James, Douglas Kelly, Ann Moffatt, Ann Nixon. Cover design by Stephen Cole of the Graphic Design Unit, Australian National University. Printed by Central Printing, Australian National...
Translated by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. — 848 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0198225683; ISBN-10: 0198225687. Theophanes the Confessor (d.818) was a Byzantine abbot who fell victim to the Iconoclastic persecution. The Chronicle that goes under his name, written in Greek, is here translated in full for the first time, together with an introduction and...
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