George Kedrenos , Cedrenus or Cedrinos ( Greek : Γεώργιος Κεδρηνός , fl. 11th century) was a Byzantine Greek historian. In the 1050s he compiled Synopsis historion (also known as A concise history of the world ), which spanned the time from the biblical account of creation to his own day. Kedrenos is one of the few sources that discuss Khazar polities in existence after the sack of Atil in 969 (see Georgius Tzul ).
4-531: Material in Synopsis historion mostly comes from the works by Pseudo-Symeon Magistros (a version of Logothete 's chronicle ), George Syncellus , Theophanes the Confessor , and, starting from 811, almost exclusively and word-for-word from the chronicle by John Skylitzes . One late manuscript of Synopsis historion preserves a poem (anonymous but thought to be by Kedrenos) that derives his family name from
8-426: A certain "John Cedrenus, protocuropalates and duke " who may have been a relative, perhaps, a brother or a cousin. This Byzantine biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pseudo-Symeon Magistros Pseudo-Simeon (or Pseudo-Symeon Magistros ) is the conventional name given to the anonymous author of a late 10th-century Byzantine Greek chronicle which survives in
12-428: A single codex , Parisinus Graecus 1712, copied in the 12th or 13th century. It is a universal history from the creation of the world to the year 963. His main sources are Theophanes the Confessor and Symeon Logothete . For the years up to 812, he uses Theophanes, George Hamartolos , John Malalas and John of Antioch . For later years, he uses parts of Joseph Genesius and the anonymous Chronicle on Leo
16-652: The place where he was born, a small village of Cedrus (or Cedrea) in the Anatolic Theme . The poem also identifies him as a proedrus , a senior court official. Before becoming a proedros, Kedrenos may have held the somewhat lower rank of vestarches . Vestarches Georgios Kedrenos is in fact known from a number of 11th–12th-century seals found mostly in the Danube region, but also in Crimea . Furthermore, several roughly contemporary seals refer to another court official,
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