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

在从古代到中世纪的过渡期间，高卢主教，其中许多是参议员后裔，继续在高卢主教和教会省份的地区背景下管理古老的基督教教堂。然而，作为主教，他们也在更广泛的范围内运作，因为他们通过努力保护继承的法律传统，同时也通过主教会议建立的主教共识来促进其发展，从而参与政治。他们的行动是与梅罗文国王合作决定的，但也是在罗马主教的服从下决定的，主教是罗马帝国教会和君士坦丁堡宫廷之间的通道。也许这一过程的最好例证是Codex Remensis，这是一份8世纪的手稿，今天保存在柏林的Staatsbibliothek(Phill。1743)。该项目旨在对这份长期无法获取的著名手稿进行首次系统调查。该法典独特地保存了通过调解立法和教皇法令制定的教会法律文本的集合，与罗马皇帝查士丁尼煽动的极具影响力的神学三章争议有关的文本档案，以及与法兰克国王克洛萨尔二世在经历了一段内战后于614年颁布的政治改革有关的立法文本。此外，法典保留了9世纪的空白注释，说明了重要的加洛林主教和莱姆斯的法律专家辛克马的使用情况。在该项目的过程中，最近才恢复和数字化的法典将进行古文字学分析，而文本中难以辨认的段落将在新的科学工具的帮助下重建。手稿中包含的文本将被转录并从内容和来源方面进行分析，以将它们解释为高卢主教法律知识的独特证据，并证明主教和国王在立法事项上的开创性合作。《法典》提供的放大镜以跨学科的方法进行仔细审查，并通过新技术和数字化使人们能够接触到它，这将使我们能够展示高卢教区如何利用其法律专业知识，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变革。此外，该项目还打算对柏林的Staatsbibliothek保存的中世纪早期法律手稿进行更深入的研究。

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.