CINNAMUS (KINNAMOS), JOHN, Byzantine historian. He was imperial secretary to Manuel I. Comnenus (1143-1180), whom he accompanied on his campaigns in Europe and Asia Minor. He appears to have outlived Andronicus I., who died in 1185. Cinnamus was the author of a history of the period 1118 76, which thus continues the Alexiad of Anna Comnena, and em braces the reigns of John II. and Manuel I., down to the unsuc cessful campaign of the latter against the Turks, which ended with the rout of the Byzantine army at Myriocephalum. Cinnamus was probably an eye-witness of the events of the last ten years which he describes. The work breaks off abruptly, and there are indications that it is an abridgement. The text is in a very cor rupt state. The author's hero is Manuel ; he is strongly impressed with the superiority of the East to the West, and is a determined opponent of the pretensions of the papacy ; but he cannot be reproached with undue bias.