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

约安内斯六世的《历史》是唯一一部由前统治皇帝退位后撰写的拜占庭历史著作。在这方面，它也被视为自传，以及对他统治期间一些致命决定的道歉。Kantakuzenos在13世纪60年代用笔名Christodulos写下了他的政治生活历史，他亲自监督了至少四份完整保存的手稿的制作过程，这些手稿可能是由他手下的几个抄写员在米斯特拉斯的伯罗奔尼撒半岛上制作的。在其传统的过程中，这部作品经历了几次结构上的改变- -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打算的。在广泛的初步研究的基础上（手稿的描述和整理，系统附录的生成，关于作者生活和作品的绪论的组成，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），该项目的目的是有效地完成这一重要的历史著作的批判版，并通过这样做，重建其原来的形状发展和编辑的作者自己。

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.