Michael Attaleiates

Byzantine judge and historian (11th century)

Lived
1030–1085
Country
Byzantine Empire

Updated September 2026

About Michael Attaleiates

Michael Attaleiates or Attaliates was a Byzantine chronicler, public servant and historian active in Constantinople and around the empire's provinces in the second half of the eleventh century. He was a younger contemporary of Michael Psellos and likely an older colleague of John Skylitzes, the two other Byzantine historians of the eleventh century whose work survives.

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