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The Medieval Church · c. 810–814
The Chronicle
Chronographia
Theophanes the Confessor · c. 758–818
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What it is
A year-by-year chronicle from 284 to 813, drawing on sources now lost and covering the Arab conquests and the first iconoclasm at length.
Why it lasted
The single most important Byzantine source for the seventh and eighth centuries, and the West's window on them once it was translated into Latin.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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