The "Codex Remensis" of the State Library at Berlin (Ms. Phill. 1743): The role of the Gallic episcopate in the transmission of late antique legal knowledge and the construction of Merovingian politics

柏林国家图书馆的“Codex Remensis”（菲尔女士，1743）：高卢主教在传播晚期古代法律知识和构建墨洛温王朝政治中的作用

• 批准号: 376982064
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Achim Bonte, since 10/2021
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/376982064?language=en
• 关键词: Codex; Remensis; State; Library; Berlin

During the transition from antiquity to the middle ages, the Gallic bishops, many of whom were of senatorial descent, continued to run the ancient Christian church in the regional context of the bishoprics and ecclesiastical provinces of Gaul. However, as episcopate, they also operated on a wider scale as they got involved in politics through their efforts preserving the inherited legal tradition while also furthering its development by episcopal consensus as established through synods. Their actions were determined in cooperation with the Merovingian kings, but also in subordination to the bishop of Rome, who acted as a conduit between the Roman imperial church and the imperial court in Constantinople. Perhaps the best illustration of this process is given by the Codex Remensis, an 8th-century manuscript today kept in the Staatsbibliothek at Berlin (Phill. 1743). This project aims at the first systematic investigation into this famous manuscript, which has long been inaccessible. The Codex Remensis uniquely preserves a collection of ecclesiastical law texts as developed through conciliar legislation and papal decrees, a dossier of texts related to the hugely influential theological Three-Chapters controversy instigated by the Roman emperor Justinian, and legislative texts relating to a political reform issued by the Frankish king Chlothar II in 614 following a period of civil wars. In addition, the codex preserves marginal notes from the 9th century illustrating its use by the important Carolingian bishop and legal expert Hincmar of Rheims.In the course of the project, the Codex, which has been restored and digitized only recently, will be analyzed paleographically, while illegible passages within the texts will be reconstructed with the help of new scientific tools. The texts contained in the manuscript will be transcribed and analyzed with regard to contents and sources in order to interpret them as unique evidence for the legal knowledge of Gallic bishops, and as a testimony to a pioneering cooperation between bishops and kings in legislative matters. The magnifying glass provided by the Codex Remensis, scrutinized in an interdisciplinary approach and made accessible through new technologies and digitization, will allow us to show how the Gallic episcopate, by use of its legal expertise, was engaged with the political and legal transformations between antiquity and the middle ages in important and groundbreaking ways. Moreover, the project also intends to initiate more intense research into the early medieval legal manuscripts kept by the Staatsbibliothek at Berlin.

在从古代到中世纪的过渡时期，高卢主教，其中许多是元老院的后裔，继续在高卢的主教辖区和教会省份的区域范围内管理古代基督教教会。然而，作为主教，他们也在更广泛的范围内运作，因为他们通过努力参与政治，维护继承的法律的传统，同时通过主教会议建立的主教共识促进其发展。他们的行动是与墨洛温王朝的国王合作决定的，但也服从于罗马的主教，后者充当了罗马帝国教会和君士坦丁堡帝国法院之间的渠道。 也许最好的说明这一进程是由法典Remensis，8世纪的手稿今天保存在国家图书馆在柏林（Phill. 1743年）。该项目旨在首次对这部著名的手稿进行系统的调查，这部手稿长期以来一直无法访问。Remensis法典独一无二地保存了一系列通过conciliar立法和教皇法令发展起来的教会法律文本，与罗马皇帝查士丁尼煽动的具有巨大影响力的神学三章争论有关的文本档案，以及与法兰克国王克洛塔尔二世在内战时期后于614年颁布的政治改革有关的立法文本。此外，该手抄本还保留了世纪的旁注，说明了重要的君士坦丁堡主教和兰斯的法律的专家Hincmar对该手抄本的使用。在该项目的过程中，该手抄本最近才被修复和数字化，将进行古文字分析，同时将借助新的科学工具重建文本中难以辨认的段落。手稿中所包含的文本将被转录和分析的内容和来源，以解释它们作为高卢主教的法律的知识的独特证据，并作为主教和国王在立法事项上的开创性合作的见证。《雷门斯法典》提供的放大镜，以跨学科的方式进行了仔细审查，并通过新技术和数字化进行了访问，将使我们能够展示高卢主教团如何利用其法律的专业知识，以重要和开创性的方式参与古代和中世纪之间的政治和法律的变革。此外，该项目还打算对柏林国家图书馆保存的中世纪早期法律的手稿进行更深入的研究。