Tư liệu chính

• Mikhael Psellos, Chronographia.

Tư liệu phụ

• Norwich, John Julius (1993), Byzantium: The Apogee, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-011448-3
• Kazhdan, Alexander biên tập (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
• Garland, Linda (1999), Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527–1204, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-14688-3
• Canduci, Alexander (2010), Triumph & Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Immortal Emperors, Pier 9, ISBN 978-1-74196-598-8
• Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-6
• George Finlay, History of the Byzantine Empire from 716 – 1057, William Blackwood & Sons, 1853
• Chisholm, Hugh biên tập (1911). “Theodora (daughter of Constantine VIII.)” . Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (ấn bản 11). Cambridge University Press.