Theophanes Continuatus

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Theophanes Continuatus (“Continuation of Theophanes”; Middle Greek Συνέχεια Θεοφάνη; Οἱ μετὰ Θεοφάνην , Latin Scriptores post Theophanem or Continuatio Theophanis ) is the name for a collection of imperial biographies of the Byzantine Empire (Cod. From the 11th century . Gr. 167) has been preserved. The historical work was commissioned by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and contains the biographies of the Byzantine emperors from the period from 813 to 961.

Theophanes Continuatus is a continuation, written by several authors, of the world chronicle of the Theophanes Homologetes , which extends from 285 to 813 , although the style differs significantly from Theophanes (see also Macedonian Renaissance ). The first four books contain the biographies of the emperors from Leo V the Armenian to Michael III. , however, the anonymous author deviates from the strictly annalistic principle of Theophanes. The fifth book contains a biography of his grandfather Basil I , written by Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetus , the so-called Vita Basilii . The sixth book may have been co-authored by Theodoros Daphnopates († approx. 963). It contains short biographical accounts of the Emperor Leo VI. , Alexander , Constantine VII , Romanos I. Lakapenos and Romanos II. The chronicle is an official historiography of the Macedonian imperial house .

expenditure

  • Immanuel Bekker (Ed.): Theophanes Continuatus, Chronographia. Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, Weber, Bonn 1838 [1]
  • Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati nomine fertur Liber quo Vita Basilii Imperatoris amplectitur .Recensuit Anglice vertit indicibus instruxit Ihor Ševcenko. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-022739-0 .
  • Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati nomine fertur Libri I-IV . Recensuerunt anglice verterunt indicibus instruxerunt Michael Featherstone et Juan Signes-Codoñer, nuper repertis schedis Caroli de Boor adiuvantibus. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter 2015. ISBN 978-1-61451-959-1

literature

  • Herbert Hunger : The high-level profane literature of the Byzantines . Vol. 1, Munich 1978, pp. 339ff.
  • Gyula Moravcsik: Byzantinoturcica I . Berlin 1958, pp. 540-542.