A detailed survey of all known Byzantine historical writings secular andecclesiastical to the end of Late Antiquity in the seventh century...Thereader will have... » 

A detailed survey of all known Byzantine historical writings secular andecclesiastical to the end of Late Antiquity in the seventh century...Thereader will have at his disposal an authoritative work of referenceindispensible to all serious students of a pivotal period. Cyril MangoExeter College A remarkable accomplishment...Treadgold describes and evaluatesthe work of forty historians spread across three hundred years and more. Thestyle is easy plain forceful clear reasonable everything it should be.Beyond that Treadgold is interested not just in the texts but in the ancientauthors as human beings and looks to discover their individual purposesmethods and peculiarities. Ramsay MacMullen Yale University A masterlysurvey of the historians on whom our knowledge of the dramatic history of earlyByzantium from Constantine to the eve of the Moslem conquest depends.Fergus Millar Oriental Institute University of Oxford «