Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
The Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae (CFHB) is an international joint project to develop, edit and comment on the historical sources of Byzantine history between the 4th and 15th centuries. The aim of these publications is to make the works of historical authors accessible to modern research in a processed form. The corpus , originally suggested by Berthold Rubin , has appeared since 1967 under the overall direction of the “ Association Internationale des Études Byzantines ” (AIEB) or its respective national branches.
Volumes and rows
In the individual volumes there are introductory remarks on the author of the source, on the surviving manuscripts and the actual, translated and commented text. In addition to the translation, the original text and some facsimiles are often included. The volumes of the CFHB are arranged in different national series according to their place of publication:
- Series Atheniensis ( Athens )
- Series Berolinensis ( Berlin )
- Series Italica ( Italy )
- Series Parisiensis ( Paris )
- Series Thessalonicensis ( Thessaloniki )
- Series Vindobonensis ( Vienna )
- Series Washingtonensis ( Washington, DC , Dumbarton Oaks )
Examples
- A Byzantine military manual of the 6th / 7th centuries. Century:
- Pseudo-Maurikios (Flavius Mauricius Tiberius): Strategicon [ Das Strategikon des Maurikios ], trans. by Ernst Gamillscheg , ed. by George T. Dennis , Vienna 1981 (CFHB Series Vindobonensis Vol. 17).
- The historical work of the Byzantine historiographer Agathias of Myrina :
- Agathias: Historiarium [ The Histories ], trans. by Joseph D. Frendo, Berlin 1975 (English translation, CFHB Series Berolinensis Vol. 2a).