Abbreviations

DBBE = Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams: 

CFHB = Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae

Nesseris= Nesseris, I. Ch. (2014), ‘Η παιδεία στην Κωνσταντινούπολη κατά τον 12οαιώνα,’ PhD Thesis, vol. 2 (University of Ioannina). 

PmbZ = Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit Online, eds. R.-J. Lilie, C. Ludwig, B. Zielke, T. Pratsch: 

PBW = Prosopography of the Byzantine World (2016 version), ed. M. Jeffreys et al. http://pbw2016.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

PLP = Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit, eds. E. Trapp, et al., 12 vols. (Vienna 1976-1996) and ed. Ch. Gastgeber, Add. 1–2 (Vienna, 2001): http://www.austriaca.at/3310-3inhalt

Polemis= Polemis, D. I. (1968) The Doukai: A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography (London). 

Skoulatos= Skoulatos, B. (1980), Les personnages byzantins de l’Alexiade: analyse prosopographique et synthèse (Louvain).

The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium=  The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (c.1081–c.1350), ed. F. Spingou, Sources for Byzantine Art History 3 (Cambridge, 2022).

Varzos= Varzos, K. (1984), Ἡ γενεαλογία τῶν Κομνηνῶν, 2 vols. (Thessaloniki).