Forgery of a Chronicle - Chronicle of a Forgery. Formation and Tradition of the so-called Chronicon maius by Pseudo-Sphrantzes

编年史的伪造 - 编年史的伪造。

• 批准号: 269004765
• 负责人: Dr. Sonja Schönauer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/269004765?language=en
• 关键词: Forgery; Chronicle; Forgery.; Formation; Tradition

The so-called Chronicon maius by Pseudo-Sphrantzes is a stylistically and literarily reworked as well as chronologically extended version of the diary of Georgios Sphrantzes, also known as Chronicon minus. Sphrantzes, a top-ranking diplomate and personal friend of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI (1449-1453), was an eye-witness of the conquest of Constantinople. Therefore, a high authenticity had been attributed to both works published under his name, until, in the 1930s, suspicion arose that the Chronicon maius was a forgery, compiled in Italy by a group of manuscript traders and copyists under the supervision of the exiled metropolitan bishop of Monembasia not earlier than after the battle of Lepanto (1571). The text was probably written with intent to motivate the Christian occident for a further crusade, this time in order to free the City of Constantinople from the Osmans and to re-establish the Byzantine Empire. Originally, the project aimed at reapraising the source situation as well as, by the study of hitherto disregarded documents, to explore the historical background of the work and the personal situation of its compilators. However, the hitherto collected results strongly suggest to combine this task with a new critical edition of the text which, in the first years already, developed several versions and, for centuries, was considered to be one of the most important Greek sources of the conquest.

所谓的 Pseudo-Sphrantzes 所著的 Chronicon maius 是 Georgios Sphrantzes 日记（也称为 Chronicon minus）的风格和文学修改版，并且按时间顺序进行了扩展。斯弗朗兹是拜占庭末代皇帝君士坦丁十一世（1449-1453 年）的高级外交官和私人朋友，也是征服君士坦丁堡的目击者。因此，以他的名义出版的这两部作品都被认为具有很高的真实性，直到 1930 年代，有人怀疑《编年史》是伪造的，是由一群手稿商人和抄写员在流亡的莫恩姆西亚都主教的监督下在意大利编撰的，时间不早于勒班陀战役（1571 年）之后。该文本的编写目的可能是为了激励西方基督教徒进行进一步的十字军东征，这一次是为了将君士坦丁堡市从奥斯曼人手中解放出来并重建拜占庭帝国。最初，该项目旨在重新评估来源情况，并通过研究迄今为止被忽视的文献，探索这部作品的历史背景及其编纂者的个人状况。然而，迄今为止收集的结果强烈建议将这项任务与文本的新批评版本结合起来，该文本在最初几年就已经开发了多个版本，并且几个世纪以来被认为是征服的最重要的希腊资料来源之一。