Ioannes VI. Kantakuzenos: Historia.Completion of a critical edition for the Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae

Ioannes VI.Kantakuzenos的《历史》是唯一一部由前统治皇帝在退位后撰写的拜占庭史学著作。在这方面，它也被研究为一本自传，以及对他统治期间一些致命决定的道歉。Kantakuzenos以Christodulos的化名撰写了他在1360年代的政治生活史，他亲自监督了至少四份保存完整的手稿的进展，这些手稿可能是由几个为他服务的抄写者在Mystras的伯罗奔尼撒上制作的。在其传统的过程中，这部作品经历了几次结构变化-附加了额外的章节，插入了标题，并引入了四本书的结构，这似乎不是作者最初的意图。在广泛的初步研究的基础上(对手稿的描述和校对，一本词典的生成，关于作者生平和作品的序言的组成，手稿和他们自己的历史，文本的结构发展以及以前的版本和翻译)，该项目的目标是有效地完成这一重要历史著作的批判版，并通过这样做，重建其由作者本人开发和编辑的原始形状。

The Historia by Ioannes VI. Kantakuzenos is the only Byzantine historiographical work that was composed by a formerly ruling emperor after his abdication. In this respect, it was also studied as an autobiography as well as an apology for some fatal decisions during his reign. Kantakuzenos wrote the history of his political life in the 1360ies under the pseudonym Christodulos, and he personally supervised the progress of at least four completely preserved manuscripts of the work which were probably produced on the Peloponnese in Mystras by a few copyists at his service. In the course of its tradition, the work underwent several structural alterations – additional chapters were attached, headings were inserted and a four-book structure was introduced which seems not to have been originally intended by the author. On the basis of extensive preliminary studies (description and collation of the manuscripts, generation of a stemma codicum, composition of the Prolegomena on life and works of the author, the manuscripts and their own history, the structural development of the text as well as former editions and translations), it is the aim of the project to efficiently complete a critical edition of this important historigraphical work and, by doing so, to reconstruct its original shape developed and redacted by the author himself.