The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes : The Ends of Time in Ninth-Century Constantinople (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages)

Why the ninth-century Chronographia of George and Theophanes so dominated the writing of history in Greek has long puzzled scholars. This revisionist study frames the work as an early medieval society's re-thinking of the relationship between past and present in order to navigate its imminent political crises.