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George Syncellus and Theophanes Confessor

2013
When George Syncellus began writing his world chronicle in 808, the dark age of Byzantine historiography was already over, along with the military, political, religious, and economic emergency that had lasted through most of the seventh and eighth centuries.
Warren Treadgold, Treadgold Warren
exaly   +2 more sources

Notes on the Western Turks in the Work of Theophanes Confessor

Acta Orientalia, 2005
Theophanes Confessor, Byzantine author of the early 9th century, when referring to the Khazars in his work entitled Chronographia, used the term “Eastern Turks”. It is widely accepted that Byzantine authors used such terms in pairs, so the pendant of “Eastern Turks” was “Western Turks”, the latter being used to denote the early Hungarians.
exaly   +3 more sources

Metaphrasis after the second iconoclasm Nicephorus Skeuophylax and his Encomia of Theophanes Confessor ( BHG 1790), Theodore of Sykeon ( BHG 1749), and George the Martyr ( BHG 682)

Symbolae Osloenses, 2003
This article discusses the Constantinopolitan author Nicephorus "Skeuophylax" and his m uvre. In addition to his two known encomia , a third text, an Encomium of George the Martyr, is attributed to him. Dating between the mid-ninth and the mid-tenth centuries, Nicephorus was a sacristan of the church of Mary at the Blachernae and a monk, possibly of St
Dirk Krausmüller
exaly   +2 more sources

Notes on the Western Turks in the Work of Theophanes Confessor

2016
Theophanes Confessor, Byzantine author of the early 9th century, when referring to the Khazars in his work entitled Chronographia, used the term “Eastern Turks”. It is widely accepted that Byzantine authors used such terms in pairs, so the pendant of “Eastern Turks” was “Western Turks”, the latter being used to denote the early Hungarians.
openaire   +2 more sources

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