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But no sense of the historian’s high vocation and essential impartiality could damp the racy individualism of Psellus’s approach nor the delicate artistry of his style and language. His enlivening devices, his literary resources,...

In his introduction to the Chronographia Psellus explains that he had often been pressed to write a history of his own times and that he finally agreed to produce a brief sketch at the...

Constantine Ducas when he became Emperor in 1059 had not lost touch with the friend of forty years ago and he eventually showed his confidence in Psellus by making him his son’s tutor —...

ChronographiaThe two predominating passions of Psellus’s life were to get on in the world and to promote scholarship and learning. This first characteristic is probably what emerges most plainly from his Chronographia. With repeated...

Whatever his father’s claims to aristocratic forebears, Michael Psellus grew up in the milieu of a middle-class family. His writings, and particularly his funeral oration for his mother, reveal a fair amount about...