Autograph Signature of Michael Attaleiates from the Manuscript of the Diataxis.
Born
c. 1022
Attaleia
Died
c. 1080
Constantinople
Citizenship
Byzantine Empire
Occupation(s)
chronicler, historian, public servant
Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ἀτταλειάτης, translit. Michaḗl Attaleiátēs, Byzantine Greek:[mixaˈilatːaliˈatis]; c. 1022 – 1080) was a Byzantine Greek chronicler,[1][2] public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the second half of the eleventh century.[3] He was a younger contemporary (possibly even a student) of Michael Psellos and likely an older colleague of John Skylitzes, the two other Byzantine historians of the eleventh century whose work survives.
^Krallis, Dimitris (2019). Serving Byzantium's Emperors: The Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04525-8. ISBN 978-3-030-04525-8.
^Kaldellis, Anthony (2019). Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67498-651-0.
^Gautier, «La Diataxis de Michel Attaliate», 12 for birth in the early 20s
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