Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)

The death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age.
 
His vivid and forceful chronicle, full of psychological insight and deep understanding of power politics, is a historical and literary document of the first importance. Recent scholars have shattered forever the view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire; Psellus, a man of striking refinement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its best the Byzantine way of life.

• The Alexiad (Penguin Classics)
• The Secret History (Penguin Classics)
• A History of Byzantium
• The Secret History: with Related Texts (Hackett Classics)
• Chronicles of the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
• History of the Byzantine State
• The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto Classics)
• Digenis Akritas: Two-Blood Border Lord
• The Social History of Byzantium
• The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series)