Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati nomine fertur Liber VI

Recensuerunt anglice verterunt indicibus instruxerunt Michael Featherstone et Juan Signes Codoñer
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-133700-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Englisch, Band 58, 465 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 795 g

Reihe: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae – Series Berolinensis

The volume presents a critical edition and translation of the final part of the Byzantine text known as Theophanes Continuatus. Entitled 'Book VI' by previous editors, the text follows upon Books I-IV and the Vita Basilii which recount the reigns of the emperors from AD 813 to the death of Basil I in 886. 'Book VI' then brings the text down to the advent of Nicephorus II Phokas in 963. Tellingly, the first two parts are composed in a classicising style typical of the literary circle of the emperor Constantine VII; but this third part, undertaken after Constantine's death – presumably on the initiative of the high official Basil the parakoimomenos, an ally of Phokas – presents a strange mixture of stylistic and linguistic levels which points to a team of authors, apparently working in the imperial palace and assuming different roles in expanding and polishing the sources. Compiled in apparent haste, this third text is based on continuations of the Logothete Chronicle with various revisions, such as additional sections of text or glosses – often inserted in the wrong places – which were presumably taken over from marginal notes or leaves inserted in the prototype, providing examples of Middle Byzantine methods of textual re-writing.

Zielgruppe

Byzantinists, Classicists, Medievalists, Orientalists, Philologis

Autoren/Hrsg.

Featherstone, Jeffrey Michael

Signes Codoñer, Juan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Featherstone, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France; Juan Signes Codoñer, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.

Michael Featherstone, CNRS/EHESS, Paris, France; Juan Signes Codoñer, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.