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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Preface
• 1 The Dark Age
• History without historians
• Trajan the Patrician
• Tarasius and the continuer of Trajan
• Nicephorus of Constantinople
• The recovery of historiography
• 2 George Syncellus and Theophanes Confessor
• George and Theophanes
• George’s Selection
• Theophanes and the Chronography
• 3 Theophanes’ Successors
• Theognostus the Grammarian
• Sergius Confessor and the Scriptor Incertus
• Ignatius the Deacon and Photius
• The Epitome and Continuation of Theophanes
• George the Monk
• 4 Historians under Leo the Wise
• Minor or spurious historians
• The History of Basil I and Leo VI
• Nicetas the Paphlagonian and the “secular and sacred history”
• Nicetas’ Secret History
• 5 The Official Histories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus
• Constantine and the Historical Excerpts
• The Life of Basil
• Joseph Genesius
• Theophanes Continuatus
• 6 Symeon the Logothete and Pseudo-Symeon
• Manuel the Protospatharius
• Symeon the Logothete
• Pseudo-Symeon
• 7 Historians of the Age of Expansion
• Nicephorus the Deacon and the History to 971
• Leo the Deacon
• Theodore of Side and Theodore of Sebastea
• Demetrius of Cyzicus and John the Monk of Lydia
• 8 Michael Psellus
• Psellus’ career
• Psellus’ Concise History
• Psellus’ Chronography
• The uniqueness of the Chronography
• 9 Psellus’ Contemporaries
• Xiphilinus’ Epitome of Dio
• Michael Attaliates
• John Scylitzes
• George Cedrenus
• 10 Nicephorus Bryennius and Anna Comnena
• Nicephorus Bryennius
• Anna Comnena
• Anna’s Alexiad
• The character of the Alexiad
• 11 Anna Comnena’s Contemporaries
• John Zonaras
• Constantine Manasses
• Michael Glycas
• John Cinnamus
• Eustathius of Thessalonica
• 12 Nicetas Choniates
• Nicetas’ life
• Nicetas’ Chronological Narrative
• Nicetas and the decline of the empire
• 13 The Historians as a Group
• The historians
• The histories
• The historiography
• Chronological Table of the Middle Byzantine Historians
• List of English Translations of the Middle Byzantine Historians
• Bibliography
• Index