拜占庭史料中包含了许多人物传记，从皇帝贵族到圣徒修士，各种传记浩如烟海，特别是近年来基督教教堂或修道院不断发现的修士和隐士传记受到重视。这类作品能够从具体的细节方面提供拜占庭社会史研究的史料。

Athanasius, The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus, trans. by Gregg, New York 1980.

Besa, Life of Shenoute, trans. by Bell, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications 1983.

The fragmentary classicising historians of the later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus, and Malchus, ed., R.C.Blockley, Liverpool 1981-1983, 2 Vols.

Bohairic, Life of Pachomius, trans. by Veilleux, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications 1980.

Anon, Byzantium, Europe and the Early Ottoman Sultans, 1373-1513: an anonymous Greek chronicle of the seventeenth century. trans. by M. Philippides, New Rochelle, New York 1990.

George Pachymeres, De Michaele et Andronico Paleologus, ed. I. Bekker, Bonn 1835;

Holy Women of Byzantium, Ten Saints'Lives in English Translation, ed. by Alice-Mary Talbot, Washington, D.C. 1996.

John of Ephesus, Lives of the Eastern Saints, edited and translated by Brooks, Patrologia Orientalis 17-19, Paris 1923-1925.

J.Kinnamos, Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, trans. by C. Brand, New York 1976.

Anna Komnene, The Alexiad, trans. by E. Dawes, London 1928; trans. by E. Sewter, N.Y. Penguin 1969.

The Lives of Simeon Stylites, trans. with introduction with Robert Doran, Kalamazoo 1992.

Michael Psellos, Fourteen Byzantine Rulers, trans. by E.R. Sewter, N.Y. Penguin 1966.

Philostratus and Eunapius, The Lives of the Sophists, trans. by W. Wright, Loeb Classical Library, London 1922.

P. Scaff, A Select Library of Fathers of the Christian Church, in http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.html.

Sozomenos,The World of the Emperor Julian, trans. by W. Wright, London 1913-1923.

Three Byzantine Saints: Contemporary Biographies translated from the Greek, trans., Elizabeth Dawes and Norman H. Baynes, Crestwood 1977.

Three Byzantine Saints, trans. by Dawes and Baynes, Stvladimir's Seminary Press 1977.