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English translations of four mid twelfth-century novels from Constantinople, with notes and commentary.

This book contains a translation of the Chronicle of the Logothete (10th c. AD), one of the most widely read Byzantine historical texts. Preserved in more than 30 manuscripts, the Chronicle covers the period from the Creation of the World until the burial of emperor Romanos Lekapenos in 948.

Translated works of Nicholas Mesarites, an ecclesiastic, who provides a different view of Byzantium at crisis point: the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea.

The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the 'themes') of the medieval East Roman (Byzantine) empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to theemperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos.