# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joannes-zonaras
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:58.370Z

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name: "Joannes Zonaras"
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description: "A Byzantine courtier who traded the emperor's inner circle for a monastery cell — and then wrote a chronicle that stretched from Genesis to the 12th century, becoming one of the medieval world's most ambitious attempts to capture all of history in one work."
tagline: "12th century Byzantine chronicler and theologian"
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birthDate: "1074"
deathDate: "1145"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joannes Zonaras rose to the top of Byzantine administration under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos around 1070, holding the posts of head justice and private secretary — roles that placed him at the nerve center of imperial power in Constantinople. When Alexios died, Zonaras walked away from court entirely, retreating to the monastery on the Island of Hagia Glykeria in the Bay of Tuzla. There he spent the remainder of his life until around 1140 writing: not just history but theology, producing chronicles that tried to weave together centuries of human events. What survives is the work of a man who knew power from the inside and chose, in the end, to make sense of it from the outside.