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1. John Julius Norwich

   Author of Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Byzantium: The Apogee, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
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2. Steven Runciman

   Author of A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, The Fall of Constantinople, 1453, The Sicilian Vespers, a history of the Mediterranean world in the later 13th century
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3. Michael Psellus

   Author of Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
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4. Procopius

   Author of The Secret History
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5. Jean de Joinville

   Author of Chronicles of the Crusades
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6. Saint Gregory of Tours

   Author of A History of the Franks
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7. Warren T. Treadgold

   Author of A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081
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8. Titus Livius

   Author of History of Rome, books 21-30, History of Rome, books 31-45, History of Rome, books 6-10
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9. George Ostrogorsky

   Author of History of the Byzantine State
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10. Ammianus Marcellinus

    Author of The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Penguin Classics)
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11. Einhard

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12. Harry Turtledove

    Author of The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni Mundi 6095-6305, A.D. 602-813
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13. John V. A. Fine

    Author of The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century
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14. Xenophon

    Author of The Anabasis [in translation], A History of My Times
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15. Jean Froissart

    Author of Chronicles [ed. Geoffrey Brereton]
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16. Michael Angold

    Author of Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204: A Political History (2nd Edition)
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17. Stephen Turnbull

    Author of The Walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453
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18. Judith Herrin

    Author of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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19. Donald M. Nicol

    Author of The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans, The last centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453
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20. Alexander A. Vasiliev

    Author of History of the Byzantine Empire: Vol. 1, 324-1453, History of the Byzantine Empire: Vol. 2, 324-1453
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21. J. B. Bury

    Author of History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian [Vol. 1], History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian [Vol. 2]
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22. Jonathan Phillips

    Author of The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
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23. Jonathan Harris

    Author of Byzantium and the Crusades
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24. Averil Cameron

    Author of The Byzantines
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25. Arrian

    Author of The Campaigns of Alexander
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26. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus

    Author of Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio
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27. Mark Whittow

    Author of The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025
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28. Anthony Richard Birley

    Author of Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva & Trajan
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29. Edward Peters

    Author of The First Crusade : the Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials
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30. John Asser

    Author of Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
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31. Thomas Caldecot Chubb

    Author of The Byzantines
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32. Walter E. Kaegi

    Author of Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests
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33. Robert Bartlett

    Author of The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
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34. Gerald of Wales

    Author of The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales
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35. Salustio

    Author of The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Catiline
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36. Geoffrey of Monmouth

    Author of The history of the kings of Britain : an edition and translation of De gestis Britonum (Historia regum Britanniae)
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37. Cassius Dio

    Author of The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
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38. Francois Louis Ganshof

    Author of Feudalism
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39. Pliny the Younger

    Author of The Letters
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40. Robert de Clari

    Author of The Conquest of Constantinople
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41. Dimitri Obolensky

    Author of The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453
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42. John Skylitzes

    Author of John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes
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43. Julius Caesar

    Author of The Civil War / The Alexandrian War / The African War / The Spanish War
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44. Emperor of Byzantium Maurice

    Author of Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy
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45. Snorri Sturluson

    Author of King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway
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46. Colin Wells

    Author of Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
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47. Polybius

    Author of The Histories
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48. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars
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49. A. P. Kazhdan

    Author of Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
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50. Cyril Mango

    Author of Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
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