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31: 42: 244:. It features 574 miniatures, while some 100 have been lost, and is the only surviving Byzantine illuminated chronicle in Greek, providing an invaluable primary source for the visualization of contemporary Byzantium. 524:
The Thurn edition supersedes the much older one by Migne. A popular edition is being prepared for Kanakis books (with parallel Modern Greek translation) and a facsimile edition of the
602: 575: 431: 1141: 470: 552: 481:Ἡ Σύνοψη Ἱστοριῶν τοῦ Ἰωάννη Σκυλίτζη καὶ οἱ πηγές της (811‐1057). Συμβολὴ στὴ βυζαντινὴ ἱστοριογραφία κατὰ τὸν ΙΑ΄ αἰώνα 30: 595: 1059: 511: 452: 982: 236: 570: 867: 461: 437: 588: 815: 992: 668: 734: 17: 857: 183: 88: 1100: 789: 739: 704: 648: 137: 57: 925: 643: 623: 1064: 1038: 825: 754: 709: 261: 74: 190:, covering 1057 to 1079; some historians hypothesize that it was also written by Skylitzes. 1012: 841: 820: 769: 714: 699: 8: 1054: 941: 799: 774: 663: 638: 1110: 1105: 1033: 764: 719: 1115: 1074: 1069: 987: 878: 872: 759: 729: 507: 466: 448: 167: 966: 920: 862: 794: 784: 565: 525: 216: 201: 34: 1090: 1017: 961: 951: 946: 905: 900: 895: 724: 556: 549: 501: 1120: 997: 910: 364: 353: 343: 291: 230: 221: 162: 154: 114: 108: 99: 65: 1135: 1007: 915: 653: 41: 561: 130:
Very little is known about his life. The title of his work records him as a
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Seibt, Werner (1976). "Iohannes Skylitzes. Zur Person des Chronisten".
175: 46: 779: 678: 179: 119: 37:, an illumination from the 11th century chronicle of John Skylitzes. 744: 694: 628: 539:(by John Scylitzes, active 1081), Cambridge University Press, 2010. 375: 146:, whereby he is usually identified with a certain John Thrakesios. 94: 436:, Belfast, 21–22 September 2002, Institute for Byzantine Studies, 673: 658: 241: 211: 571:
Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with analytical indexes
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is also available from Militos (Μίλητος) Publishers.
327: 307: 301: 79: 186:. There is a continuation of this work, known as 1133: 392: 596: 425: 489:Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 445:Jean Skylitzès: Empereurs de Constantinople 369: 358: 347: 321: 295: 277: 271: 265: 231:[sk̟ilˈlit̪.d͡ze̝sma.t̪riˈt̪ɛn.sis] 603: 589: 443:Flusin, B. (trans.), J.-C. Cheynet (ed.), 27:Greek historian (early 1040s – after 1101) 537:A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057 465:. Oxford University Press. p. 1914. 610: 576:Synopsis of Histories (Σύνοψις Ἱστοριῶν) 40: 29: 458: 415: 193: 14: 1134: 503:Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis historiarum 93: 584: 499: 486: 398: 374: 363: 352: 229: 161: 122:historian of the late 11th century. 115:[jɔˈan.ne̝ssk̟ilˈlit̪.d͡ze̝s] 113: 247: 118:; early 1040s – after 1101), was a 24: 206:The most famous manuscript of the 166:), which covers the reigns of the 25: 1153: 1142:11th-century Byzantine historians 1060:Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos 543: 214:in the 12th century known as the 163:[ˈsy̜.nop.sisis.to.riˈon] 95:[i.oˈa.nissc̠iˈlit.t͡sis] 983:Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger 459:Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). 506:. Berlin-New York: De Gruyter. 868:Nikephoros I of Constantinople 462:Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium 336: 284: 254: 13: 1: 237:Biblioteca Nacional de España 385: 314: 264:forms in common use include 174:in 811 to the deposition of 7: 564:with notes on Scylitzes by 438:Queen's University, Belfast 328: 302: 80: 10: 1158: 993:Eustathius of Thessalonica 669:Socrates of Constantinople 308: 199: 178:in 1057; it continues the 1083: 1047: 1026: 975: 934: 888: 850: 834: 808: 735:Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite 687: 616: 500:Thurn, Hans, ed. (1973). 479:Kiapidou, Eirini-Sophia. 447:, Ed. Lethielleux, 2004, 433:AHRB Skylitzes Colloquium 426:General and cited sources 376:[sk̟ilˈlit̪.d͡zi] 354:[sk̟iˈliː.t͡si.a] 322: 296: 158: 69: 858:Theophanes the Confessor 550:Notes by Paul Stephenson 535:Wortley, John (trans.). 365:[sk̟iˈlit̪.d͡za] 184:Theophanes the Confessor 1101:Laonikos Chalkokondyles 790:Theophanes of Byzantium 740:Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor 705:Eustathius of Epiphania 649:Panodorus of Alexandria 125: 49:in the Madrid Skylitzes 926:Theophanes Continuatus 644:Olympiodorus of Thebes 624:Annianus of Alexandria 370: 359: 348: 278: 272: 266: 226:Skyllitzes Matritensis 225: 149:His major work is the 103: 50: 38: 1121:Pseudo-George Kodinos 1065:John VI Kantakouzenos 1039:Theodore Skoutariotes 826:Theophylact Simocatta 755:Liberatus of Carthage 710:Evagrius Scholasticus 562:Biography of Basil II 234:), and is now at the 188:Scylitzes Continuatus 151:Synopsis of Histories 44: 33: 1013:Constantine Manasses 842:Hippolytus of Thebes 821:Trajan the Patrician 715:Hesychius of 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Skylitzes

Varangian Guardsmen

Greek fire
Latinized
Greek
romanized
Byzantine Greek
[i.oˈa.nissc̠iˈlit.t͡sis]
Latin
Latin
[jɔˈan.ne̝ssk̟ilˈlit̪.d͡ze̝s]
Byzantine
kouropalatēs
droungarios of the Vigla
Greek
[ˈsy̜.nop.sisis.to.riˈon]
Byzantine emperors
Nikephoros I
Michael VI
chronicle
Theophanes the Confessor
Madrid Skylitzes
Sicily
Madrid Skylitzes
Latin
[sk̟ilˈlit̪.d͡ze̝sma.t̪riˈt̪ɛn.sis]
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Madrid

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