Magdalino 1999, pp. 89–91: "Basil the Younger is firmly grounded in the historical reality of the tenth [century], and his hagiographer gives the impression of knowing that reality at first hand. ... [Yet] even if Basil was real, he had more in common with an imaginary fifth-century holy fool than with his sainted monastic contemporaries." Magdalino, Paul (1999). "'What we heard in the lives of the saints we have seen with our own eyes': The Holy Man as Literary Text in Tenth Century Constantinople". In J. Howard-Johnston; P. A. Hayward (eds.). The Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. Oxford University Press. pp. 83–112. ISBN978-0-19-826978-6.
