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Born c.1130
Died c.1187
Notable Works “Synopsis historike”
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
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Michael Choniates
Byzantine historian
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John Mauropous
Byzantine scholar
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John Geometres
Byzantine poet, official, and monk
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George the Pisidian
Byzantine poet
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John Tzetzes
Byzantine scholar
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Theodore Prodromus
Byzantine author
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Saint Andrew of Crete
archbishop of Gortyna, Crete
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Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
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Eustathius of Thessalonica
Greek Orthodox metropolitan
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George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
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Michael Glycas
Byzantine historian and theologian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
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Robert Mannyng
English poet
Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
German poet
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Wace
Anglo-Norman author
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Garcia de Resende
Portuguese poet
Chastellain, Georges
Georges Chastellain
Burgundian author
La Marche, detail of an engraving
Olivier de La Marche
Burgundian author

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