2nd half of 12th century) was a Byzantine rhetor and clergyman, and a prolific author of ecclesiastical treatises, letters, and poetry.
The list describes western "errors," including their failure to honour foreign saints and their hatred of the Emperor Constantine for creating New Rome.
[6] Stilbes is also known for his poem describing a catastrophic fire that took place in Constantinople on July 25, 1197.
[7] Running to about a thousand lines, the Carmen de Incendio describes the course of the fire along the Golden Horn from the Gate of the Droungarios (Turkish: Odun Kapısı) through the Latin Quarter, using ekphrases rich with Biblical and Classical metaphors.
The poem is an important resource for those studying the urban topography of Medieval Constantinople, as it describes the burning of three story houses[8] and aristocratic houses with turrets,[9] and it makes allusions to coastal roads,[10] aqueducts,[11] the Neorion Harbour ,[12] granaries,[13] the Church of the Forty Martyrs,[14] and the Church of the Theotokos Kyriotissa.