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	Battle of Kleidion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the confusion, thousands of Bulgarians were killed; according to the account of Byzantine historian John Skylitzes, Samuil was present at the battle and was able to escape only with the help of his son's horse.
		Skylitzes also records that Basil completely routed the rest of the Bulgarians and took 14 000 prisoners.
		In that year Bulgaria's last stronghold at Dyrrhachium was captured, and Bulgaria became a province of the Byzantine Empire till the successful uprising led by the Asen brothers in 1185.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion (561 words)

	Skylitzis
		John Skylitzes reveals that he held the elevated rank of kouropalates, and was formerly the megas droungarios tes viglas, a senior judicial position.
		His work, which covers the period AD 811-1057, was conceived as a continuation to the chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, which was in turn a continuation of the chronicle of George the Monk.
		Skylitzes praised both George and Theophanes, but condemned the subsequent histories by Psellos and 'the didaskalos Sikeliotes' as overly brief and inaccurate.
	www.geocities.com /indunna/skylitzis (360 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantium
		John of Nikiu: On the Factions in Egypt.
		John of Damascus: In Defence of Icons, c 730, extracts from On the Holy Icons and the Fount of Wisdom.
		Pantokrator: Typikon of Emperor John II Komnenos for the Monastery of Christ Pantokrator at Constantinople (trans.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook1c.html (3421 words)

	John Skylitzes, Synopsis Historion, Excerpt 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Skylitzes was writing most probably between 1079 and 1096, thus already up to eighty years after the battle.
		It is, therefore, typical that Skylitzes should state that Basil invaded Bulgaria each year before 1014, but provide no further information to support this short sentence.
		It is likely, therefore, that Skylitzes was reporting a story which had remained in circulation since the episode, and which had been modified and exaggerated in the telling.
	homepage.mac.com /paulstephenson/trans/scyl1.html (715 words)

	Pantocrator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Cinnamus and other historians relate that the Empress Irene, wife of John II Comnenus, took an active interest in the construction, organization and functioning of the monastic complex.
		The imperial founders, John and Irene, were buried in the funerary chapel dedicated to the Archangel Michael.
		Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180), who succeeded his father John, brought from Ephesus the marblc slab believed to have been the Stone of Unction, on which Christ's body had been laid out by Joseph and Nicodemus to be anointed before the entombment.
	www.patriarchate.org /ecumenical_patriarchate/chapter_4/html/pantocrator.html (1227 words)

	Battle of Kleidion, 1014, Chronicle of John Skylitzes in the Bibliotéca Naçional, Madrid, Bulgaria History
		As Skylitzes has written, until 1014 Basil II had not ceased his annual invasions into Bulgaria and the pillaging of towns and villages.
		John Skylitzes Chronicle is a uniquely illustrated Byzantine chronicle.
		Skylitzes’ chronicle was copied slavishly by the 12th-century chronicler Kedrenos whose work has had to be used as a substitute for Skylitzes until Thurn’s recent edition, even though Kedrenos also has only been available in a poor quality 19th.
	www.geocities.com /nbulgaria/bulgaria/kleidion.htm (1279 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.05.06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Moreover, without the careful editorial contributions by Alice-Mary Talbot and John Nesbitt, one is left with a volume written largely in English by non-native speakers, edited by native speakers of French and German.
		John Cotsonis offers an insightful glance at "Saints and cult centers: a geographic and administrative perspective in light of Byzantine lead seals," which draws on a database he has created of 7277 seals.
		John Nesbitt of Dumbarton Oaks offers "The Orphanotrophos: some observations on the history of the office in the light of seals," as an addendum to T. Miller's recent monograph on The Orphans of Byzantium (Washington, DC, 2003), but also as a corrective to an earlier study by R. Guilland.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-05-06.html (2070 words)

	Skylitzes illustration II
		It was written in the second half of the 11th century [1] by John Skylitzes, a Byzantine court official.
		The Skylitzes manuscript has only recently been translated and is not widely avaliable yet, however a major part of Skylitzes' text was copied by the late 12th-century Greek historian George Kedrenos [4] (Georgius Cedrenus).
		Sevcenko, I. (1984) 'The madrid manuscript of the Chronicle of Skylitzes in the light of its new dating.' in: 'Byzanz und der Westen', pp.117-130.
	users.bigpond.net.au /quarfwa/miklagard/period/skylitzes_peter.htm (675 words)

	Byzantine Narrative - AABS Conference - Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Skylitzes’ approval of female augustae, I argue, is restricted to those women who recognize their ‘biological’ inferiority and the resulting transience of their political authority.
		John, bishop of Ephesus, was one of the leaders of the anti-Chalcedonian movement in the sixth century.
		At the head of the ladder is Saint John Climacus, who was Abbott of Mt. Sinai and he is followed by a bishop of Mt. Sinai, Antonios and probable donor of this icon painted in the eleventh century.
	www.cca.unimelb.edu.au /byznarr/abstracts.html (11404 words)

	Nicephorus Bryennius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His wife attributed his refusal to cowardice, but it seems from certain passages in his own work that he really regarded it as a crime to revolt against the rightful heir; the only reproach that can be brought against him is that he did not nip the conspiracy in the bud.
		He was on very friendly terms with the new emperor John II, whom he accompanied on his Syrian campaign (1137), but was forced by illness to return to Byzantium, where he died in the same year.
		At the suggestion of his mother-in-law he wrote a history ("Materials for a History") of the period from 1057 to 1081, from the victory of Isaac I Comnenus over Michael VI to the dethronement of Nicephorus Botaniates by Alexius.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Nicephorus-Bryennius.htm (539 words)

	Medieval documents from Macedonia, sources for Macedonian history
		JOHN SKYLITZES, SYNOPSIS HISTORION The Battle of Kleidion, 29 July 1014
		Franks, promoting the filioque clause], being thus defeated by the power of the word and of truth, did only what they could, or, rather, what they were sent to do (100) by their father who was a murderer from the beginning [John, 8: 44].
		The Lord Himself teaches us that life consists in searching the Scriptures [John, 5: 39], and Isaiah admonishes us to draw water not from the swamp of heresy, but from the wells of salvation [Isa., 12: 3].
	makedonija.150m.com /makedonija/medievalsourcesmacedonianhistory.htm (1994 words)

	Hagiographies of the Saints - Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic
		John Vladimir was of princely lineage from Zahumlje.
		In 1925, a church was built to honor this crowned martyr adjacent to the monastery of St. Nahum since John Vladimir was the benefactor of this glorious monastery.
		According to Byzantine historian John Skylitzes, Jovan Vladimir was the ruler of Tribalia and Serbia.
	www.njegos.org /orthodoxy/hagiog.htm (797 words)

	Roman Emperors DIR Basil II
		A brief description by John the Deacon of the naval and trading agreement deal struck in 992 between the empire and Venice lacks diplomatic context.
		As John Forsyth's work has shown, this confusion can be reconciled by using evidence from Leo the Deacon, the Life of John and Euthymios, and an inscription from the Georgian monastery of Zarzma.
		John the Deacon, an exact contemporary, interprets the Venetian action as a unilateral decision to rid the area of Croat pirates.
	www.roman-emperors.org /basilii.htm (16624 words)

	Khan Asparukh, First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgaria History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rich colours upon which John remarks were polychrome wall and floor tiles, produced in monasteries in the vicinity of Preslav from the later ninth century.
		Their headlong flight was punctutated by fearful cries as some men were trampled by comrades and others were killed by the enemy; there was such a letting of blood as had not been seen for very many years.
		The tagma of the Exkoubitoi was commanded by John Grapson, the tagma of the Hikanatoi by Maroules' son.
	www.megaone.com /nbulgaria/bulgaria/asparukh.htm (3772 words)

	Byzantine Studies Conference: 1981 Conference
		For example, John Chrysostom never once in his seventeen extant letters to Olympias mentions her in her role as the founder and superior of one of Constantinople's first monasteries for women.
		Her decision to give away her vast fortune and to become a nun at the age of sixteen was due both to the emotional trauma of her bereavement and to the spiritual guidance of the metropolitan Theoleptos of Philadelphia, who remained her director until his death (ca.
		57 depicts the consecration of John VII in 832 as patriarch.
	www.byzconf.org /1981abstracts.html (15834 words)

	May 2000
		Whereas the imprint left by the Body is chemically pure and solely due to an oxidation of the cellulose, the bloodstains have been formed by an exudation of reddish dry blood which can be observed both on the tips and in the interstices of the linen fibres.
		It was a baldachin measuring approximately 2.75 by 1.90 metres and embroidered with scenes from the Gospel.
		The conventional position is that the «so-called umbella of John VII» is not by John VII.
	www.crc-internet.org /may00a.htm (7195 words)

	R. Wolff - The 'Second Bulgarian Empire' - 2
		In the east the Dukes of Paristrion — the term which had replaced 'Bulgaria' as applying to the territory along the river — were subject directly to the Emperor.
		Newly discovered seals, and a close study of Skylitzes enabled Banescu to draw up a fuller list of the Byzantine dukes of Bulgaria, and to add to the list of dukes of Paristrion a new founder of the line, Simeon Vestes (1030).
		The first (1040-1041) arose because of the intolerable exactions of Michael IV's minister, John the Orphanotrophos, who for the first time demanded that taxes be paid in Bulgaria in money rather than in kind.
	groznijat.tripod.com /bulgar/wolff_2.html (3382 words)

	Macedonia and Byzantium
		The substitution of payment in kind by payment in currency, imposed by John the Orphanographer in 1040, was the last straw, and the peasantry rose up in outrage.
		The Hungarian historian G. Fecher suggests that when Samuil was still alive Gavril Radomir did in fact turn out his wife (the Hungarian princess), not because of Irene-a legend-but because of cool relations between Samuil and her young brother, King Stephen of Hungary.
		In fact, Aleutian was the grandson of Aron (the brother of Samuil) and as a great-nephew of Samuil was chosen by Michail IV was sent to reap discord among the insurgents.
	www.mymacedonia.net /history/byzantine.htm (3006 words)

	Oct 98a
		There I explained that though the Greek word soudarion is an Aramaic expression in Saint John, the important thing is to know why the Evangelist preferred this term to that of sindon, along with the appositional clause which bothers all the exegetes: «which was over His head» (Jn 20.7).
		We read in the Palestinian targums of the Book of Exodus, that when Moses came down from Mount Sinaï carrying «the two tables of the Testament», he was unaware that the image of his face shone with the splendour radiating from the Glory of the Presence of Yahweh while he had been speaking with Him».
		In Saint John’s eyes, it was not so much at the Transfiguration, of which however he was the witness on Mount Tabor, that the Glory of God shone on the Face of Christ, as at the moment of His supreme humiliation, at the «Hour» of His Passion.
	www.crc-internet.org /oct98a.htm (12943 words)

	The Madrid Skylitzes Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Madrid Skylitzes (Biblioteca Nacional, vitr.26-2) is a twelfth-century illustrated version of John Skylitzes' chronicle the Synopsis Historion, which covers the Byzantine Empire throughout the years 811-1057.
		Associate Professor Roger Scott at the University of Melbourne in Australia manages the textual aspects of the manuscript, in collaboration with John Burke (Melbourne) and Professor John Wortley (University of Manitoba).
		Contact: Bente Bjornholt, Roger Scott (r.scott@unimelb.edu.au), John Burke (j.burke@unimelb.edu.au).
	www.sussex.ac.uk /arthistory/1-3-8-2.html (277 words)

	greekworks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elena N. Boeck’s doctoral dissertation at Yale University examined the power, patronage, and politics of the Madrid Skylitzes Manuscript that was created at the court of Roger II of Sicily.
		John T. Kirby is professor of classics and comparative literature at Purdue University.
		John Yau is a poet and critic whose recent books include The United States of Jasper Johns and My Symptoms.
	www.greekworks.com /content/index.php/weblog/contributors (2258 words)

	The Siege of Tarsos in 965, according to Leo the Deacon
		The history, divided into ten books, covers the years from 959 to 976, that is, the reigns of Romanus II (959-963), Nicephorus Phokas (963-969) and John Zimisces (969-976).
		It describes the wars against the Arabs including the recovery of Crete from the Arabs in 961, the conquest of Antioch and Northern Syria (968-969), the Bulgarian War (969) and the defeat of the Southern Russians (971), one of the most brilliant periods of the later Empire.
		For the reigns of Nicephorus Phocas and John Zimisces, Leo the Deacon is the one source, the only contemporary historian, from whom all later writers have drawn their material.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/leodeacon.htm (2264 words)

	Macedonia for the Macedonians
		The young Komitadjis, whose territory was far distant from the Russo-Byzantine conflict, remained neutral despite attempts by both sides to sway them.
		When he revived he asked for cold water; however, when he began to drink, he suffered a heart attack and two days later he died." This is the 12th century account of the Byzantine historian Skylitzes about the defeat of Samuil by Basil II.
		There is no definite proof where Samuil died-in Prilep, as claimed by Skylitzes, or in Prespa, as stated by Michael Attaliot.
	www.makedonija.info /samuil.html (1614 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Illuminated Manuscripts
		The studios of miniature paintings for a long time felt the effects of the catastrophe of 1204, and after the thirteenth century the monks ceased to illuminate luxuriously liturgical manuscripts.
		One of the manuscripts most characteristic of this period is that of the "Chronicle" of Skylitzes (Madrid, National Library, thirteenth century).
		The colours are clear in tone and very fresh, but the artist having no ancient model before him and left to his own resources, has executed veritable bons-hommes, which nevertheless charm by the vivacity of their movements and their picturesque attitudes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09620a.htm (5223 words)

	Metacrock's Blog: June 2005
		John Skylitzes, writing in the mid-11th century, a strictly contemporary witness, noted that the Emperor Romanos III (1028-34) "strove eagerly to take the rebuilding in hand; but his death intervened and his successor completed the work." This was the Emperor Michael IV, the Paphlagonian, who reigned from 1036-41.
		This is suggested in St. Johns Gospel when it says that there was a "garden" at the place of Crucifixion, and that in that garden there was a tomb.
		For example, I am convinced that the author of John was an eye witnesses to Jesus life and ministry but that he was not the Apostle John.
	metacrock.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_metacrock_archive.html (17206 words)

	Recent acquisitions by department/program
		The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid / Vasiliki Tsamakda.
		John Townsend : Newport cabinetmaker / Morrison H. Heckscher ; with the assistance of Lori Zabar.
		American traveler : the life and adventures of John Ledyard, the man who dreamed of walking the world / James Zug.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~library/acq/newacq_071305.html (4212 words)

	R. Wollf - The 'Second Bulgarian Empire' - Appendix A
		However this may be, after this now somewhat dubious passage relating to the late sixth century, there is silence with respect to the Vlachs in the narrative sources for about four hundred years.
		I am not in a position to judge the philological argument here (the Bulgarians explain their names from Turkish roots), but apparently the names may well be Turkish.
		In 1017, during the same wars, the spies of John Vladimir, Aaron's son and Samuel's rival, warned him of Basil's approach (ibid., p.
	www.kroraina.com /bulgar/wolff_appA.html (1830 words)

	Centre for Classics and Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Byzantine Macedonia Co-edited (with John Burke) a collection of 34 papers (to be published in two volumes) from a conference on Byzantine Macedonia held at the University of Melbourne with contributions mainly from Greece but also from UK, USA, Germany, Austria, Albania and Serbia.
		Alexander the monk, The Discovery of the True Cross Working in collarboration with Dr. John Nesbitt (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC) to product a critical edition and translation of this work.
		Apart from Gretser's editio prima of 1602 the only printed version is Migne, Patrologia Graeca 87.3 cols.4016-88, which was simply a copy of Gretser and so not based on a full collation of the manuscripts and is at best haphazard in its readings.
	www.cca.unimelb.edu.au /People/Roger-Scott (631 words)

	SPBS News Archive
		Their aim will be to run a series of seminars and produce a collection of books, in an attempt to set East Mediterranean archaeology of the 7th c.
		The database construction is run from the University of Sussex by Liz James and Bente Bjørnholt and forms a section of the Centre's Skylitzes project.
		The manuscript, which is a twelfth century illustrated version of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes, contains 574 images of various subject matters related to the events in the text.
	www.byzantium.ac.uk /spbsnews_archive.htm (2766 words)

	[1998: October] Medieval Sourcebook Down Over the Weekend: Now Back Up
		Brother John of Monte Corvino: Letter to the Minister General of the Friars Minor in Rome, c.
		John of Damascus: Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images, full text, available 10/23/98
		John of Damascus: Three Sermons on the Dormition of the Virgin, full text
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/LT-ANTIQ/1998/10/0059.php (491 words)

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