Joannes Zonaras
12th century Byzantine chronicler and theologian
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Byzantine court official turned monastic chronicler. Zonaras served as head justice under Alexios I Komnenos before retreating to a monastery to write the histories that would outlast his bureaucratic career.
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Joannes or John Zonaras was a Byzantine Roman historian, chronicler and theologian who lived in Constantinople. Under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos he held the offices of head justice and private secretary (protasēkrētis) to the emperor, but after Alexios' death, he retired to the monastery on the Island of Hagia Glykeria,, where he spent the rest of his life writing books.
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