Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre: Chronicle, Part III

Translation of part of an important Syriac historical work dating from the end of the eighth century. The part translated relates events of the reigns of Zeno, Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian, written from the point of view of a religious dissident whose personal experience as a persecuted monk in his native Mesopotamia which makes the Chronicle an interesting and unusual source.