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‘Another kind of interest in the past was satisfied by world chronicles beginning with the creation or some early biblical event. Often naively theological in their explanation of causes, black-and-white in their depiction of character, and popular in language, they helped the ordinary Byzantine to locate himself in a scheme of world history that was also a history of salvation.... Such chronicles continued to be written in later centuries, sometimes with critical and literary pretensions... or in vaguely romanticised form in verse....’

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Hmm....

*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 405

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