Michael Gabras (; c. 1290 – after 1350) was a

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

official and writer. A lowly scribe in the imperial chancery, Gabras' life is relatively obscure except through his voluminous correspondence.

Anthony Bryer Anthony Applemore Mornington Bryer (31 October 1937 – 22 October 2016) was a British historian of the Byzantine Empire who founded the journal ''Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies'' and the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studie ...

, who studied the Byzantine Empire, called him "the most prolific of all Byzantine letter writers." Gabras' 462 letters span the period 1305–1341, and his 111 correspondents include most of the major political and literary figures of his day. He also had a brother, John, who wrote a theological treatise against the doctrines of

Gregory Palamas Gregory Palamas (; ; – 1357/1359) was a Byzantine Greek theologian and Eastern Orthodox cleric of the late Byzantine period. A monk of Mount Athos (modern Greece) and later archbishop of Thessalonica, he is famous for his defense of hesyc ...

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