Michael Psellos or Psellus (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ψελλός, romanized: Michaḗl Psellós, Byzantine Greek: [mixaˈil pseˈlːos]) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant,...

Michael VII remained in the background, while the initiative to take power was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor Michael Psellos. Michael VII...

of the 9th and 10th centuries is unclear; the contemporary writers Michael Psellos and Nicholas Kallikles affirm such a relationship, but Zonaras openly...

remedy this by wholesale surgery. — Michael Psellos, Chronographia, VII.51 The only point of criticism raised by Psellos is his haste and severity, judging...

advanced on Constantinople. Michael VI attempted to negotiate with the rebels through the famous courtier Michael Psellos, offering to adopt Isaac as...

century. He was a younger contemporary (possibly even a student) of Michael Psellos and likely an older colleague of John Skylitzes, the two other Byzantine...

windows and doors were barred, and strangled infants. The polymath Michael Psellos of the 11th century inherited the notion that the stryngai and gelloudes...

after John introduced him to the reigning Empress Zoë. According to Michael Psellos, the two became lovers and may have plotted to assassinate Zoë's husband...

and Joy. p. 304. McLachlan 2004, p. 236. Haldon 2005, p. 176. Psellos, Eudocia 1. Psellos, Eudocia 2. ODB, p. 1366. Garland 2002, pp. 170−172. Garland...

 74–76. Antifantakis & Moatsou 2006, p. 43. Kindstedt 2012, p. 50. Michael Psellos. "Poem on Medicine", 1:209; Dalby 1996, p. 190. Öncel, Fatma (2020)...