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

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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 next half-century of abnormal decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the most greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age.
 
His vivid and forceful chronicle, full of psychological insight and deep working out of power politics, is a historical and literary document of the first importance. Contemporary scholars have shattered endlessly the view that the Byzantine Age used to be only a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire; Psellus, a man of striking refinement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its highest the Byzantine way of living.

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