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The Medieval Church · c. 866–872
The Chronicle
George Hamartolos · 9th century
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What it is
A world chronicle from Adam to 842 written by a monk for monks, long on iconoclasm and moral judgement and short on secular politics.
Why it lasted
Translated into Slavonic and Georgian, it became the standard history for much of the Orthodox world outside Greek.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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