Georgios Kedrenos

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Georgios Kedrenos (Latinized Georgius Cedrenus , Middle Greek Γεώργιος Κεδρηνός ) was a Byzantine historian of the 11th and 12th centuries.

Nothing is known about the life of the Kedreno. It is believed, however, that he was a monk. At the turn of the century, Kedrenos wrote a world chronicle that went from the biblical creation of the world to the year 1057, when Emperor Isaac I Comnenus took office . He used a number of earlier historians as sources, although he often took over their works literally. Its main source for its representation up to the year 811 is the so-called Pseudo-Symeon , an anonymous compilation that has been preserved through the Codex Parisinus graecus 1712 and is to be classified in the context of the tradition of the logothet chronicle. He also used sources such as the Chronicon Paschale , Theophanesand the Logothetenchronik ("Symeon Logothetes"), for the period up to late antiquity also about Sozomenos , Prokopios of Caesarea , John of Antioch and Theophylactos Simokates . For the time after 811 he gave - for the most part literally - the historian Johannes Skylitzes . Since the majority of the sources used by Kedrenos and have hardly been changed have been preserved anyway, its representation as a historical source is mostly of no independent value, but remains interesting for investigations of the circumstances in Byzantine historiography . His work in turn served as a model for later historians, especially Michael Glykas , Johannes Zonaras and Theodoros Skutariotes .

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SURNAME Kedrenos, Georgios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cedrenus, Georgius; Kedren; Γεώργιος Κεδρηνός
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine historian
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 11th century or 12th century