/lit/ - Literature

>>16307680
Procopius’s works are primary and extensive, his secret history is strange especially but I like it, just take the demon stuff as exaggeration for affect and pay attention to the despotism and not trusting hoes.
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>>16309815
Procopius was writing at this time (reign of Justinian).
Additionally, though this isn’t a book, you could check out the Yale courses lecture series on the early medieval era on YouTube, it’s about twenty lectures. It doesn’t come across as a modern commentator lambasting the past for not being modern enough too, it’s very positive on Christianity for example. But if you’re a newfag from outside of /lit/ you won’t like the positive things he says about Islam because you’re too spooked by liberalism.
Here’s a link: https://youtu.be/ZC8JcWVRFp8