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For the following half-century of extraordinary decline our main source is Michael Psellus (1018-96), one of the greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age. His vivid and forceful chronicle, full of psychological insight and deep understanding of power politics, is a historical and literary document of the first importance. Recent scholars have shattered for ever Gibbon's view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire; Psellus, a man of striking refnement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its best the Byzantine way of life.
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Kaka Kapol
reviewed Fourteen Byzantine Rulers on January 27, 2021
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
An account of the reigns of fourteen emperors by a guy who lived through them all, which tells you a lot about the absolute state of the Byzantine empire around 1100 AD. Also, they might have found things easier if they hadn't all been called either Michael or Constantine, just saying.
This is a beautifully written/translated work--Psellus was a polymath, a rhetorician as well as philosopher, doctor, engineer, military expert, etc. Includes quite a lot about how extremely clever he is and how various emperors hung on his every word, looked on him as a god, suffered when they failed to take his advice, etc.
Very interesting and acute in places, grovelly in others--the account of Michael VII, written in that useless berk's lifetime, presents him as some kind of new Alexander. Very much focused on court shenanigans and politics rather than what was going on in the wider empire or the life of the common people, who should, on Psellus' account, be robustly ignored at all times.
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