Michael Panaretos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Πανάρετος; c. 1320 – c. 1390) was an official of the Trapezuntine empire and a Greek historian. His sole surviving work is a chronicle of the Trapezuntine empire of Alexios I Komnenos and his successors. This chronicle not only provides a chronological framework for this medieval empire, it also contains much valuable material on the early history of the Ottoman Turks from a Byzantine perspective, however it was almost unknown until Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer discovered it in the nineteenth century among the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice. "Owing to this drab but truthful chronicle," writes the Russian Byzantist Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, "it has become possible to a certain extent to restore the chronological sequence of the most important events in the history of Trebizond. This Chronicle covers the period from 1204 to 1426 and gives several names of emperors formerly unknown."[1]
^Vasiliev, "The Empire of Trebizond in History and Literature", Byzantion, 15 (1940-41), p. 333
about Panaretos is what little he tells us in his chronicle. He was a protosebastos and protonotarios in the service of Alexios III Komnenos. Panaretos makes...
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Victor MichaelPanaretos (born 1982) is a Greek mathematical statistician. He is currently Professor and Director at the Institute of Mathematics of the...
Michael Psellos or Psellus (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ψελλός, romanized: Michaḗl Psellós, Byzantine Greek: [mixaˈil pseˈlːos]) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant,...
had no knowledge of the chronicle of the Trapezuntine chronicler MichaelPanaretos nor access to Georgian records, such as Edward Gibbon, assumed the...
MichaelPanaretos, which is often terse and even cryptic, is relatively full for John's reign, and external sources add further details to Panaretos'...
la Géorgie", Revue des études byzantines, 35 (1977). pp. 243–247 MichaelPanaretos, Chronicle, ch. 1. Greek text in Original-Fragmente, Chroniken, Inschiften...
Anna Xylaloe, a Trapezuntine noblewoman. According to the chronicler MichaelPanaretos, "And so, his son by lady Anna Xylaloe, the lord Andronikos II Komnenos...
well-documented; the primary historian for the Empire of Trebizond, MichaelPanaretos, fails to mention him even once. Because he was the brother of Alexios...
territory stretching along the southern coast of the Black Sea. Although MichaelPanaretos, a 14th-century Trapezuntine chronicler, calls Manuel "the greatest...
only to die in that city in 1362. MichaelPanaretos tells us John had a son, but not his name; all that Panaretos records about him is that he escaped...
from 1235 to 1238. One editor reads the text of the chronicle of MichaelPanaretos as stating that John ruled six years; although William Miller follows...
at Trebizond at the time, makes no mention of the epidemic, while MichaelPanaretos describes how the Black Death carried off "many: children, husbands...
establish a court that soon become the Small but reviving Greek empire." MichaelPanaretos, Chronicle, ch. 1. Greek text in Original-Fragmente, Chroniken, Inschiften...
Trebizond Ecumenical Patriarch John VIII Ecumenical Patriarch Maximus V MichaelPanaretos George Amiroutzes Gregory Choniades George of Trebizond Basilios Bessarion...
supported by his mother and some loyal generals and courtiers, including MichaelPanaretos, whose laconic chronicle is the principal source on the political...
Turkmens, a branch of Qara Qoyunlu first appeared in the Chronicle of MichaelPanaretos. It is probable that the Duharlu tribe came to Anatolia from Central...
Michael Critobulus (Greek: Μιχαήλ Κριτόβουλος; c. 1410 – c. 1470) was a Greek politician, scholar and historian. He is known as the author of a history...
Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres MichaelPanaretos 15th century John Anagnostes John Cananus Laonikos Chalkokondyles Michael Critobulus Doukas George Sphrantzes...
of Manuel I of Trebizond. She may be the same Irene Syrikaina whom MichaelPanaretos mentions was stoned to death in September 1332 in the purges that...
Trebizond and his Iberian wife, Djiadjak Jaqeli of Samckhe. According to MichaelPanaretos, he reigned for 15 months, which suggests that there was an interregnum...
Patrologia Graeca, cxx.). The epitome of Dio was prepared by order of Michael Parapinaces (1071–1078), but is incomplete. It comprises books 36–80, the...
At birth, Anna was betrothed to Constantine Doukas, the son of Emperor Michael VII and Maria of Alania. The two were the heirs to the empire until sometime...
governor of the theme of Dyrrhachium, had revolted against the feeble Michael VII, but had been defeated by the future Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The...
insidiis. 4. De sententiis). In The Manuscript Tradition of Polybius, John Michael Moore (CUP, 1965) provides a useful summary of the commission by Porphyrogenitus...
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