Dragoljub Marjanovi. is an associate professor at the Chair and Seminar for Byzantine Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy - University of Belgrade

The forensic and thorough quality of the work offers Byzantinists new ideas about the seventh and eighth centuries in Constantinople, and a fresh in-depth study of a text that has not received such sustained attention since Cyril Mango's 1990 critical edition. - Meredith L. D. Riedel, Duke University Speculum 94/1 (January 2019)

• Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1 Nikephoros the Layman, Chapter 2 Short History in the Byzantine Historiographical Tradition, Chapter 3 Herakleios - a Model of an Emperor, Chapter 4 The Dark Century, Chapter 5 Iconoclasts Restoring Order, Conclusion, Glossary, Abbreviations and Bibliography, Index