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    encomium on Psellus' protectors, the emperors of the Doukas dynasty. Byzantinist historian Judith Herrin said: "This book by Michael Psellus is so fascinating...
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    surviving work particularly concerned with individual demons. Michael Psellus prepared the influential De operatione dæmonum (On the Operation of Demons)...
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    administration of justice.: 498  Although contemporary historian Michael Psellus claimed the joint reign was a complete failure, John Scylitzes stated that...
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    Finlay 1853, p. 526. Norwich 1993, p. 325. Michael Psellus (c. 1080). Chronographia. Michael Psellus (1953). Chronographia [English translation]. Translated...
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    excommunication of each church by the other in 1054. Psellus, p. 269. Norwich, pg. 332 Psellus, p. 315. Editor's n. I. See also Skylitzes, p. 464, note...
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  • the Phokades descends from him. Psellus, Michael (1966). Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus. New York: Penguin Classics. pp...
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    fight with his enemies which would cause his worried generals to complain. Psellus confirms that Romanus “exposed himself to danger without a thought of the...
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    Oribasius, Aetius (Aëtius of Amida or Sicamus Aëtius), Actuarius, Nonnus, Psellus, Leo, Myrepsus; Arabic: Scrapion, Avenzoar, Albucasis, Haly Abbas translated...
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    in his bath. According to court official and later chronicler Michael Psellus, some of his retinue had "held his head for a long time beneath the water...
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    Guazzo's classification of demons, based on a previous work by Michael Psellus. The work is extensive and divided into three books. The first one is dedicated...
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