Chronicon Paschale (Easter Chronicle) 284-628 AD
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Chronicon Paschale (Easter Chronicle) 284-628 ADDescription
Chronicon Paschale (Easter Chronicle), the first translation in English, is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late-antique period. It was composed at Constantinople, circa AD 630, by one of the clergy of St Sophia, probably under the patronage of the Patriarch Sergius. Its importance is twofold: for the fifth and sixth centuries, it provides a major supplement to the Chronicle of Malalas, a sixth-century history which survives only in abbreviated form; for the seventh century it contains substantial independent evidence (including some transcribed official letters) relating to the Empire's internal and external troubles - the riots, plots and massacres of Phocas' reign, the financial difficulties, the Avar siege of Constantinople (AD 626), and the triumph over the Persians (AD 628) under Heraclius.Category
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