Alexios I Komnenos
Emperor (from 4 Apr. 1081); born ca.1057, died Constantinople 15 Aug. 1118.Son of John Komnenos and Anna Dalassene, Alexios began his career as general under Michael VII and Nikephoros ...
John VIII Chrysostomites
(Ξρυσοστομίτης), or Merkouropolos (Μερκουρóπωλος), patriarch in Jerusalem (ca.1098–1106/7?; on the name see B. Englezakis, Byzantion 43 [1973] 506–08).Although his personality and patriarchate remain ...
Maria of “alania,”
More correctly, of Georgia, Byz. empress (1071/3–81); born ca.1050, died after 1103. Born Martha, daughter of Bagrat IV of Georgia, and distinguished for her beauty, Maria came to Constantinople ...
Nicholas of Kerkyra
Writer, metropolitan of Kerkyra; fl. ca.1100. He was a participant in the council of 1117 concerning Eustratios of Nicaea. Nicholas wrote a lengthy commentary on Maximos the Confessor, with a ...
Niketas of Herakleia
Theologian; born ca.1050, died after 1117 (not 1030–1100, as stated in Beck, Kirche 651). Neither his career nor the exact composition of his oeuvre is yet established. He was nephew ...
Niketas Seides
Theologian of the first half of 12th C., possibly from Ikonion; his name, Σείδης, may be a Greek version of Arabic-Turkish Saʿīd.In one MS he is described as a ...
philosophy, Byzantine
Philosophy was taught and studied in the Greek-speaking world throughout the MA.The relative continuity with ancient Greek literary culture is a distinguishing feature of Byzantine literary culture. ...
Robert Grosseteste
(c.1168–1253)English medieval philosopher. Born in Suffolk, Grosseteste gained a reputation in medicine, and after study in Paris became perhaps the first Chancellor of the university of Oxford. He ...
synodikon of Orthodoxy
The synodikon of Orthodoxy is a document read on the first Sunday of Lent in the Orthodox Churches of Greek rite: it celebrates the restoration, after the iconoclast crisis, of ...
