Recent scholars have shattered forever the view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire Psellus, a man of striking refinement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its best the Byzantine way of life. 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. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. 951957 (with a list of fourteen Byzantine emperors supposedly suering from arthritis). Recent scholars have shattered forever the view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby. Five Case Stories on Byzantine Emperors and Their Impairments. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the gr. Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus.
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