Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity

Small and fragmentary historians of late antiquity (abbreviation KFHist ) is a source edition of late antique historical works.

It is a long-term project supervised by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , which will run for 15 years (2012–2026) and will be funded with a total of € 3 million. It is located at the University of Düsseldorf . Within the scope of this project, several texts that have so far been inadequately edited with a German translation, an introduction and a philological-historical commentary are to be published. As a working office managers act Bruno Bleckmann and Markus Stein , the volumes appear in the publisher Ferdinand Schöningh .

The collection of sources should include a total of almost 90 authors or anonymous works; the period ranges from the time of the imperial crisis of the 3rd century to the 6th century. In this context, the entire spectrum of late antique historiography is covered: both Christian and pagan authors, (smaller) works that have been preserved in full or only in fragments, but also reconstructable historical works (such as Enmann's Imperial History ) are taken into account.

The first volume with the fragments of the church history of Philostorgios was published at the end of 2015 and received positive reviews. The scientific reception of the following volumes has also been very positive so far.

Volumes

• Module A. Historians of the Imperial Crisis
  • A 1–4, 6–8: Bruno Bleckmann, Jonathan Groß: Historians of the Imperial Crisis of the 3rd Century. Volume I, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78490-2 ( Asinius Quadratus , Nikostratos of Trapezunt , Philostratos of Athens , Ephoros of Kyme the Younger , Eusebios , Eusebius of Nantes , Onasimos / Onesimus).
• Module B. Imperial history and collective biographies from the 4th and early 5th centuries
  • B 3: Bruno Bleckmann, Jonathan Groß: Eutropius , Breviarium ab urbe condita . Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78916-7 .
  • B 5–7: Bruno Bleckmann, Jan-Markus Kötter, Mehran A. Nickbakht, In-Yong Song and Markus Stein: Origo gentis Romanorum - Polemius Silvius - Narratio de imperatoribus . Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78791-0 (Origo gentis Romanorum, Polemius Silvius : Nomina omnium principum Romanorum and Breviarium temporum , Narratio de imperatoribus domus Valentinianae et Theodosianae).
• Module C. Panegyric contemporary history of the 4th and early 5th centuries
• Module D. Profane historiography at the end of the 4th century
• Module E. Church historian
  • E 7: Bruno Bleckmann, Markus Stein: Philostorgios , Church History. Edited, translated and commented on. Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary. Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78199-4 .
• Module F. Greek profane historians from Theodosius II to Anastasios
• Module G. Chronicles and chronicle continuations of the 5th and 6th centuries
  • G 1–4: Maria Becker, Bruno Bleckmann, Jonathan Gross, Mehran A. Nickbakht: Consularia Constantinopolitana and related sources. Consularia Constantinopolitana · Fasting Source of Socrates · Berlin Chronicle · Alexandrian World Chronicle . Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78210-6 .
  • G 5–6: Maria Becker, Jan-Markus Kötter: Prosper Tiro . Chronicle - Laterculus regum Vandalorum et Alanorum . Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78211-3 .
  • G 7–8: Jan-Markus Kötter, Carlo Scardino: Gallic Chronicles . Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78489-6 (Chronicle of 452; Chronicle of 511).
  • G 9–10: Jan-Markus Kötter, Carlo Scardino (Ed.): Chronik des Hydatius. Continuation of the Spanish Epitome. Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78915-0 .
• Module H. Latin profane historians of the 5th / 6th Century
• Module I. Greek profane historians of the 6th century

Web links

• Project presentation at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Düsseldorf
• Project page
• Website at the publisher Ferdinand Schöningh

Remarks

1. ↑ See the respective review information in the comments of this article.
2. ↑ Udo Hartmann: Review of: Bleckmann, Bruno; Groß, Jonathan: Historian of the Imperial Crisis of the 3rd Century I. Paderborn 2016, in: H-Soz-Kult, December 5, 2016; Meeting in BMCR.
3. ^ Raphael Brendel: Review of Bleckmann, Bruno; Stein, Markus: Philostorgios, church history. Edited, translated and commented. Vol. 1: Introduction, text and translation; Vol. 2: Commentary. Paderborn 2015 , in: H-Soz-Kult, July 25, 2016; Görge K. Hasselhoff: Review of: Bruno Bleckmann, Markus Stein (editor), Philostorgios: Church history . Paderborn 2016, in: BMCR 2016.10.38.
4. ^ Raphael Brendel: Review of: Becker, Maria; Kötter, Jan-Markus: Prosper Tiro, Chronicle. Laterculus regum Vandalorum et Alanorum. Edited, translated and commented on. Paderborn 2016, in: H-Soz-Kult, October 10, 2016.
5. ↑ Raphael Brendel: Review of: Kötter, Jan-Markus; Scardino, Carlo (Ed.): Gallic Chronicles. Edited, translated and commented. Paderborn 2017, in: H-Soz-Kult, June 11, 2018. See also the very positive review by Jeroen WP Wijnendaele, in: Historische Zeitschrift 307 (2018), pp. 804–806.