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		Theophanes covers much of the geographical and temporal spread of late Antiquity, and his Chronicle is a valuable companion to the study of the period.
		Theophanes' Chronicle was the last work to combine narrative and rigid chronographic form in the tradition of Eusebius (or more accurately, in the tradition of Eusebius's continuators, none of whom other than Jerome attempted to maintain Eusebius's format of parallel columns for coeval kingdoms).
		For this period, Theophanes becomes a primary source, valuable for the court politics of Constantinople and for the relations of the Byzantine empire with the Caliphate, the Bulgarians, and the early Carolingians.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V4N2/gillett.html (1352 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A Byzantine monastic and chronicler, St. Theophanes (called the Confessor or the Chronicler) was related to the Macedonian royal family and was educated at the imperial court at Constantinople, where he later served under Leo IV the Isaurian.
		Theophanes and his wife became monastics after two years of marriage, and he founded two monasteries, one on Mt. Sigriane and another on the island of Kalonymous.
		Theophanes' sources are now lost, and his is the most complete extant history of VII and VIII Century Byzantium.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xtheophanesc.html (189 words)

	Theophanes the Confessor - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Saint Theophanes, Confessor and Hymnographer, Bishop of Nicea was the younger brother of the St.
		The emperor Theophilus gave orders to inscribe a phrase insulting to the glorious confessors upon their faces with red-hot needles.
		With the restoration of Icon veneration St. Theophanes was returned from exile and consecrated Bishop of Nicea.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Theophanes_the_Confessor (218 words)

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		The Monk Theophanes the Confessor was born at Constantinople into a pious and reknown family.
		the father of Theophanes was a kinsman of the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741).
		Awhile later the spouse of Theophanes was tonsured a nun in one of the monasteries in Bithynia, and Theophanes accepted monastic tonsure under the monastic elder Gregory.
	cs-people.bu.edu /butta1/divenbog/MARCH/12-MARCH.DOC (3198 words)

	Saint Theophan the Recluse - ApostolicWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theophan the Recluse, also known as "Theophan Zatvornik", (1815–1894) is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.
		In 1841 he was ordained, became a monk, and adopted the name Theophan.
		He is especially well-known today through the many books he wrote concerning the spiritual life, especially on the subjects of the Christian life and the training of youth in the faith.
	www.taac.us /Saint_Theophan_the_Recluse (492 words)

	Georgius Syncellus
		Georgius Syncellus's chronicle was continued by his friend Theophanes Confessor (Theophanes homologetes).
		Anastasius Bibliothecarius composed a "Historia tripartita" in Latin, from the chronicle of Syncellus, Theophanes, and Nicephorus the Patriarch (806-815).
		In the East his fame was gradually overshadowed by that of Theophanes.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/georgius_syncellus.html (406 words)

	March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sophronios, patriarch of Jerusalem; Martyrs Thallos and Trophimos; Venerable George of Sinai; Theodora the empress; repose of Euthymios, bishop of Novgorod.
		The synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel; Stephen the Confessor.
		Hypatios the wonder-worker, bishop of Gangra; Venerable Akakios the Confessor, bishop of Melitene; Prophet Joel; repose of Innocent, metropolitan of Moscow, enlightener of the Aleuts and apostle to America; repose of Jonah, metropolitan of Moscow.
	www.antiochian.org /1102796361 (545 words)

	Proto-Bulgarians - 5
		For example, in his description of the escape of Justinian II from Phanagoria to Bulgaria in 704 AD he correctly states that after passing along the lighthouse of Hersones, the escapee swam across the Necropiles and the mouths of Dnepr and Dnestr [11].
		The remarks of Theophanes and Nicephorus that they were close to each other, but not identical, are confirmed by the archaeological data.
		Utilizing the information of Theophanes and Nicephorus that Kubrat, together with his people, crossed Tanais, we can conclude the at least one part of this defeated by the Khazars group left its native places and moved in a search for new lands.
	members.tripod.com /~Groznijat/p_bulgar/p_bulg5.htm (4331 words)

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		The Monk Theodore the Confessor, and his brother the Confessor Theophanes the Lettered-Upon, were born in Jerusalem of Christian parents.
		Saint Theodore was raised to the dignity of presbyter.
		Saint Theophanes survived the ending of the Iconoclast heresy, and died in the dignity of Bishop of Nicea.
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/dec27o.html (808 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		The Monk Theophanes, Confessor and Faster, was born into a family of pagans.
		In his youth Theophanes came to believe in Christ, was baptised and secretly left his pagan parents to go to Mount Dabis to an hermit-elder, who had asceticised there over the course of 75 years.
		The holy confessor bravely endured his sufferings and was released alive.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/september/9th.cfm (1556 words)

	Theophanes the Confessor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It seems that Theophanes had only prepared the tables, leaving vacant spaces for the proper dates, but that these had been filled out by someone else (Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator literarius recentioris I, Innsbruck, 1903, 735).
		Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); Ein Dithyrambus auf Theophanes Confessor (a panegyric on Theophanes by a certain protoasecretis, or imperial chief secretary, under Constantine Porphyrogenitus) and Eine neue Vita des Theophanes Confessor (anonymous), both edited by the same writer in 'Sitzungsberichte' of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1896, pp.
		Pargoire, "Saint Theophane le Chronographe et ses rapports avec saint Theodore studite," in Bufai'rH'd Xpovuci, ix.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theophanes_the_Confessor (842 words)

	Saint of the Day
		Theophanes built monasteries on Mount Sigriana and on the island of Kalonymos; after six years at the latter, he became abbot of Mount Sigriana.
		When Theophanes refused to accede to the emperor's demands, he was scourged, imprisoned for two years, and then banished to Samothrace, where he died in exile soon after his arrival from the injuries he received in prison.
		He was the confessor of Duke Richard II of Capua until appointed the bishop of Forum Claudii in 1087 by Pope Victor III.
	www.marythemotherofjesus.com /Saint_of_the_DayMarch122006.html (4321 words)

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		Disciple Philip, of the Seven Deacons (I) Monk Theophanes, Confessor and Composer of Canons, Bishop of Nicea (+c.
		The Monk Theophanes the Confessor, Composer of Canons, Bishop of Nicea, was the younger brother of the Monk Theodore the Lettered-Upon (commemorated 27 December).
		With the restoration of Icon-veneration the Monk Theophanes was returned from exile and ordained bishop of Nicea.
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/oct11o.html (929 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Chronicle of Theophanes, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d.
		In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and eighth centuries both to withstand foreign invasions and to quell internal religious conflicts.
		Almost all the sources used by Theophanes have perished, leaving his chronicle as the most important historical literature from this period.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0812211286 (348 words)

	The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios, according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor
		The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios, according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor
		After doing this for five days, Siroes commanded that he should be killed with bow and arrows, and thus in slow pain he gave up his wicked soul.
		This translation is from The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813, translated by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/theophanes.htm (7639 words)

	THEOPHANES - Online Information article about THEOPHANES
		Theophanes refused, and, after two years' imprisonment, was banished to the See also:
		Anastasius from Nicephorus, George the Syncellus, and Theophanes for the use of a See also:
		des Theophanes Confessor (anonymous), both edited by the same writer in Sitzungsberichte der philos.-philol.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/THEOPHANES.html (555 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An outspoken iconodule, Theophanes participated in the Seventh Ecumenical Council at Nicæa (
		814, Theophanes composed his Chronographia, a continuation of the work of his friend George the Synkellos, whose history ends at
		Modern historians complain that Theophanes lacks insight and objectivity.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/theophanesc.html (189 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Anna (wife of Artabasdus)
		Anna, daughter of Leo III, was born prior to her father's accession and, according to Theophanes, it was in 715 that she was promised in marriage to the Armenian Artabasdus, general of the Armeniac theme, following Theodosius III's deposition of Anastasius II.
		The marriage took place some time after Leo became emperor, in March 717, and Artabasdus was given the rank of curopalates or major-domo of the palace, a high honorary title, and made count (comes) of the Opsikion theme.
		Greatrex, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
	www.roman-emperors.org /anna.htm (256 words)

	SAINTS AND FEASTS
		Saint Theophanes, the brother of Saint Theodore the Branded, was a Palestinian by race.
		They were called "the Branded" because Theophilus, the last of the Iconoclast emperors, had twelve iambic verses branded by hot irons on their foreheads and then sent them into exile, where Theodore died in the year 838.
		After the death of Theophilus in 842, Theophanes was elected Bishop of Nicaea.
	www.goarch.org /en/Chapel/saints.asp?contentid=237 (207 words)

	Skylitzis
		He lived and wrote towards the end of the eleventh century, probably in the early years of the reign of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118).
		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)

	Serbian Orthodox Church - Our Holy Father Theophanes the Confessor
		The splendid and wealthy Theophanes lived for some time in the monastery us the poorest wretch.
		Only when he himself fell ill and was sick for a long time did he refuse to pray for his own healing but endured it with thanksgiving.
		When another iconoclast period arose under the wicked Emperor Leo the Armenian, Theophanes was taken to Constantinople and thrown into prison, where he spent two years in discomfort, pain and humiliation.
	www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net /cgi-bin/saints.cgi?view=828876996178 (373 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Kingsley also found evidence in, among others, the works of Procopius, a court historian of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, who died in 562, and from Theophanes Confessor (c.760-817), a Christian monk from Constantinople.
		In Chronographia, which spanned 284 to 813, Theophanes recorded that Geiseric the Lame, king of the Germanic tribe of the Vandals, loaded the treasures that "Titus had brought to Rome after the capture of Jerusalem" on a boat and took them to his North African capital Carthage in 455.
		Although history remembers the Vandal sack of Rome as extremely brutal (and their act made the word 'vandalism' a term for any wantonly destructive act), in actuality Geiseric honored his pledge to Pope Leo I not to make war on the people of Rome.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=113199 (675 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Maria (wife of Leo III)
		Her husband and some members of his household were already waiting for her there and the baptism of their son was then celebrated by the patriarch Germanus.
		Iconophile sources such as Theophanes report a highly symbolic, and doubtless apocryphal, incident during the six-month-old baby's immersion, which denoted the evil that Constantine was to cause the empire: 'a terrible and evil-smelling sign was manifested in his very infancy, for he defecated in the holy font, as affirmed by actual eyewitnesses'.
		Mango and R. Scott, with G. Greatrex, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
	www.roman-emperors.org /mariaiii.htm (344 words)

	SAINTS AND FEASTS
		By Your actions you taught us to look beyond the flesh for it passes, rather to be concerned about the soul which is immortal.
		Receiving from God a revelation from the heights, thou swiftly didst leave the turmoil of the world, O Saint; and thou as a monk didst receive the power to perform miracles and the grace of true prophecy, depriving thyself of riches and thy spouse.
		Saint Theophanes, who was born in 760, was the son of illustrious parents.
	www.goarch.org /en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=457 (217 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.10.27
		Syncellus had apparently intended to bring the work down to his own day but was prevented by his death in 810, and his labours were later completed by his associate Theophanes Confessor.
		Additionally, Syncellus is valuable for the allusions he presents for his own travels in and around contemporary Palestine, and there is even a possibility that the author may have access to a number of sources (now lost) in the original Syriac as well.
		For some, the connection between Theophanes and Syncellus is enough to warrant the consideration that the Syriac chronographic tradition was the basis of the authors' knowledge of Eusebius.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-10-27.html (1425 words)

	Amazon.com: The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813: Books: Theophanes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is the first complete translation into English (or any other modern language) of the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (d.818), which covers the period AD 284-813 and is one of the most important sources of Byzantine history, that of the Arabs under the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties and of other neighbouring peoples (notably the Bulgarians).
		The Chronicle is a compilation of earlier sources, many of them now lost: in order to use it critically the historian needs to know what texts Theophanes had in front of him and how he handled them.
		The career of Theophanes, the character of the Chronicle, its manuscript tradition, and the use of earlier sources are discussed in the Introduction.
	www.amazon.com /Chronicle-Theophanes-Confessor-Byzantine-History/dp/0198225687 (1075 words)

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		But all this lost its value for Theophanes when he enthroned Christ the Lord in his soul.
		Then he was hindered by a marriage which he was obliged to make.
		The splendid and wealthy Theophanes lived for some time in the monastery as the poorest wretch.
	www.pomog.org /prologue/March/25.htm (653 words)

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		Calling upon a textual tradition that includes Theophanes the Confessor, George Kedrenos, and Nikephoros Kallistos, the ivory might render the final phase of the ceremonial sequence when the procession has...
		The Byzantine monk and chronicler Theophanes the Confessor wrote Chronographia (813) and said, "In Antioch a star appeared in the eastern part of the sky during the day,...
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	Theophanes Continuatus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Theophanes Continuatus is the name conventionally applied to a collection of texts preserved in a single eleventh-century manuscript (Vat.
		It comprises four separate sections covering the period AD 813-961.
		The first section (813-67) continues Theophanes Confessor, but in a very different style: the anonymous continuator abandons Theophanes strict annalistic format.
	homepage.mac.com /paulstephenson/trans/theocont.html (299 words)

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