Chronicle of Theophanes Anni Mundi 6095-6305, A.d. 602-813

Summary: An important source to have survived from the two centuries termed 'the dark ages of the Byzantium' is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d.817 or 818). In it Theophanes identifies the Empire's struggle in the 7th and 8th centuries both to withstand foreign invasions and to quell internal religious conflicts.