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1.
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series)
by:
Harry Turtledove
3.78 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus
by:
Michael Psellus
4.02 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos (Translated Texts for Historians, 31) (Volume 31)
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Sebeos
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
by:
Maurice
4.34 avg rating — 199 ratings
5.
Genesios, On the Reigns of the Emperors
by:
Joseph Genesius
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476
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Priscus
4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The History of Menander the Guardsman. Introductory essay, text, translation and historiographical notes
by:
R.C. Blockley
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
8.
The Alexiad
by:
Anna Comnena
4.06 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates
by:
Nicetas Choniates
4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
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History of the Wars, Vol II: Books 3-4
by:
Procopius
4.22 avg rating — 92 ratings
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History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2
by:
Procopius
4.10 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The History
by:
Michael Attaleiates
4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History
by:
Patriarch Nikephoros of Constantinople
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
14.
Chronicon Paschale 284-628 (Translated Texts for Historians Vol. 7)
by:
Michael Whitby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
15.
History of the Wars, Volume III: Books 5-6.15
by:
Procopius
4.27 avg rating — 71 ratings
16.
The History of Theophylact Simocatta: An English Translation with Introduction
by:
Theophylact Simocatta
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
17.
John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes
by:
John Skylitzes
4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
18.
History of the Wars, Volume 5. Books 7.36-8. Gothic War
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Procopius
4.25 avg rating — 63 ratings
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History of the Wars, Volume IV. Books 6.16-7.35 Gothic War
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Procopius
4.21 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The History
by:
George Akropolites
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
by:
Ammianus Marcellinus
4.07 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles: With a new edition of the Greek text by Ioannis Vassis
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Liz James
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
22.
Zosimus: New History (Byzantina Australiensia 2)
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Zosimus
3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings
22.
The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece
by:
Teresa Shawcross
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
25.
Łewond Vardapet. Discours historique avec en annexe La correspondance d'Omar et de Léon
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Ghewond
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
26.
John Kaminiates: The Capture of Thessaloniki
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John Kaminiates
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes
by:
John Skylitzes
4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
28.
The Life of Saint Symeon the New Theologian
by:
Niketas Stethatos
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
28.
Photius: The Bibliotheca
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Photius
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Life of Patriarch Ignatius
by:
Nicetas David
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Life of Saint Nicholas of Sion
by:
Nancy Patterson Sevcenko
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
32.
Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria
by:
Albrecht Berger
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
33.
The Conquest of Constantinople (Records of Western Civilization Series)
by:
Robert of Clari
3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
34.
Pierre Gilles' Constantinople: A Modern English Translation
by:
Pierre Gilles
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
35.
Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century: The Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition)
by:
Averil Cameron
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
36.
The Iohannis, Or, De Bellis Libycis: Of Flavius Cresconius Corippus (Studies in Classics, V. 7)
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Flavius Cresconius Corippus
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
36.
The Taktika of Leo VI: Revised Edition
by:
Leo VI
4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
38.
Byzantine Defenders of Images: Eight Saints' Lives in English Translation
by:
Alice-Mary Talbot
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
39.
Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints’ Lives in English Translation
by:
Alice-Mary Talbot
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
40.
Epitome of Military Science
by:
Vegetius
4.11 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Histories
by:
Agathias
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
42.
Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius / An Alexandrian World Chronicle
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Pseudo-Methodius
4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
42.
The History of Zonaras
by:
Thomas M. Banchich
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
44.
Three Byzantine Saints: Contemporary Biographies of St. Daniel the Stylite, St. Theodore of Sykeon, and St. John the Almsgiver
by:
Elizabeth Dawes
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
45.
De Administrando Imperio
by:
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
3.95 avg rating — 66 ratings
45.
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
by:
Jordanes
3.80 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Chronicle of Zuqnin Parts III and IV A.D. 488-775
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Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel Mahre
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
47.
Two Works on Trebizond
by:
Michael Panaretos
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
49.
Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain (Translated Texts for Historians, Volume 9)
by:
Kenneth Baxter Wolf
3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
49.
The Histories (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (Volume II)
by:
Laonikos Chalkokondyles
4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
51.
The Histories (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (Volume I)
by:
Laonikos Chalkokondyles
4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
52.
Secret History
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Procopius
3.84 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
53.
Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series)
by:
Eusebius
3.59 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Secret History
by:
Procopius
3.84 avg rating — 3,331 ratings
55.
Land Legislation of the Macedonian Emperors
by:
E. McGeer
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
56.
Tales from Another Byzantium: Celestial Journey and Local Community in the Medieval Greek Apocrypha
by:
Jane Baun
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
57.
The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles (Translated Texts for Historians, 15) (Volume 15)
by:
Andrew Palmer
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
58.
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity (Translated Texts for Historians, 55)
by:
Sebastian Brock
2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
59.
The History of al-abarī Vol. 12: The Battle of al-Qādisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine A.D. 635-637/A.H. 14-15 (Near Eastern Studies
by:
Yohanan Friedmann
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
60.
Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre: Chronicle, Part III (Translated Texts for Historians, 22) (Volume 22)
by:
Witold Witakowski
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
61.
Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus
by:
John Kinnamos
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
62.
Chronicles of the Crusades
by:
Jean de Joinville
3.83 avg rating — 1,523 ratings
63.
Three Byzantine Military Treatises
by:
George T. Dennis
4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century
by:
Alice-Mary Talbot
4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Digenes Akrites
by:
Unknown
3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
66.
The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor : Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813
by:
Theophanes the Confessor
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
67.
The Alexiad
by:
Anna Comnena
4.06 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
68.
Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos
by:
Michael Psellos
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
69.
Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century
by:
Eric McGeer
4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
70.
Le traité sur la guérilla (De velitatione) de l'empereur Nicéphore Phocas (963–969)
by:
Nikephoros II Phokas
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
71.
Eustathios of Thessaloniki: The Capture of Thessaloniki
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Eustathios
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations: Texts and Translations Dedicated to the Memory of Nicolas Oikonomides
by:
J.W. Nesbitt
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
73.
On Buildings
by:
Procopius
3.74 avg rating — 54 ratings
74.
The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. I
by:
R.C. Blockley
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
75.
The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628
by:
Geoffrey Greatrex
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity (Translated Texts for Historians, 55)
by:
Geoffrey Greatrex
2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
77.
Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Translated Texts for Historians, 32) (Volume 32)
by:
Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
78.
Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks
by:
Doukas
3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
79.
History of the Armenians
by:
Agathangelos
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
80.
History of the House of Artsrunik (Classical Armenian Texts)
by:
Thomas Artsruni
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Armenia and the Crusades: 10th to 12th Centuries: The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
by:
Մատթեոս Ուռհայեցի (Matthew of Edessa)
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Histories
by:
Agathias
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Correspondence of Ignatios the Deacon
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Ignatios the Deacon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698): Introduction, Edition, Translation and Commentary (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies)
by:
Stephanos Efthymiadis
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
85.
Letters of Gregory Akindynos
by:
Gregory Akindynos
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
86.
The Letters of Manuel II Palaeologus: Text, Translation, and Notes
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Manuel II Palaeologus
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade
by:
Alfred J. Andrea
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
88.
Selected Writings
by:
George C. Berthold
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
89.
Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by “Heron of Byzantium”
by:
Denis F. Sullivan
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion: An Eleventh-Century Pillar Saint (Byzantine Saints' Lives in Translation, 3)
by:
Richard P.H. Greenfield
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The life of Michael the Synkellos
by:
Mary Cunningham
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Life of St Philaretos the Merciful Written by His Grandson Niketas: A Critical Edition (Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 8)
by:
Lennart Rydén
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
93.
Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700 (Translated Texts for Historians, Contexts, 1)
by:
Richard Price
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus (Translated Texts for Historians, 17) (Volume 17)
by:
Aurelius Victor
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius: A History of the Church from AD 431 to AD 594 (Christian Roman Empire Series, 5)
by:
Evagrius Scholasticus
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817 (Translated Texts for Historians, 13)
by:
Raymond Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes: (Liber Pontificalis) (Translated Texts for Historians, 20) (Volume 20)
by:
Raymond Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (Translated Texts for Historians, 45) (Volume 45)
by:
Richard Price
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553
by:
Richard Price
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
100.
History of Armenia
by:
Krikor H. Maksoudian
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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