Corpus Byzantinae historiae

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The Corpus Byzantinae historiae , also called the Parisian Corpus after its place of origin , is a printed collective edition of Byzantine sources in 42 volumes, which appeared from 1645 to 1711.

history

The Corpus Parisinum came into being in the second heyday of Byzantine studies in France in the middle of the 17th century. France's growing interest in Byzantium went hand in hand with diplomatic expansion in the Ottoman Empire . In a treaty with Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in 1550, France had received special rights in trade with Turkey. This agreement was renewed in 1581 and extended to include a patronage over the Catholic Christians in the Ottoman Empire. The merchants were followed by priests who relentlessly pursued plans for church union . The source edition was under the patronage of Louis XIV , the majority of the learned authors came from the Jesuit order , founded in 1540 , which had established a college in Galata in 1603 .

Many renowned French and non-French philologists of the 17th century contributed to the edition: the Jesuits Philippe Labbe and Pierre Poussine , the Dominicans Jacques Goar and Francois Combéfis , the lawyer Charles Fabrot and the historian Charles du Cange , who is one of the founders of Byzantine studies . In addition to the corpus, Du Canges Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis was created , a dictionary and real dictionary at the same time.

Many Byzantine authors were published for the first time in the Paris Corpus and provided with valuable comments. The edition provides a basis for many texts to this day. In the years 1777 and 1819 ( Leon Diakonos ' edition of Hase ) a supplement was published.

From 1729 to 1733 a so-called "Venetian Corpus" was published, essentially a reprint of the texts of the Paris Corpus with a few additions. The Paris Corpus also had a fundamental influence on Niebuhr's Bonner Corpus ( Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae , CSHB, 1828-1897), which has been replaced since 1967 by the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae (CFHB) series .

literature

  • Georg Ostrogorsky : History of the Byzantine State , 1963, p. 2ff.
  • Johannes Irmscher : Introduction to Byzantine Studies , 1971, p. 22ff.
  • M. Bernath, G. Krallert, K. Nehring: Historische Bücherkunde Südosteuropa I / 1 , 1978, p. 181.