Description The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the Chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d.
Theophanes\'s carefully developed chronological scheme was mined extensively by later Byzantine and Western record ke.
In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire\'s struggle in the seventh and eighth centuries both to withstand foreign invasions and to quell internal religious conflicts. 817 or 818).
Description The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the Chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d