The volume presents a critical edition and translation of the final part of the Byzantine text known as Theophanes Continuatus. Entitled 'Book VI' by previous editors, the text follows upon Books I-IV and the Vita Basilii which recount the reigns of the emperors from AD 813 to the death of Basil I in 886. 'Book VI' then brings the text down to the advent of Nicephorus II Phokas in 963. Tellingly, the first two parts are composed in a classicising style typical of the literary circle of the emperor Constantine VII; but this third part, undertaken after Constantine's death - presumably on the initiative of the high official Basil the parakoimomenos, an ally of Phokas - presents a strange mixture of stylistic and linguistic levels which points to a team of authors, apparently working in the imperial palace and assuming different roles in expanding and polishing the sources. Compiled in apparent haste, this third text is based on continuations of the Logothete Chronicle with various revisions, such as additional sections of text or glosses - often inserted in the wrong places - which were presumably taken over from marginal notes or leaves inserted in the prototype, providing examples of Middle Byzantine methods of textual re-writing.

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Awarded with the 2025 SPBS Annual Book Prize by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS).

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Das Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae umfasst Texte der byzantinischen Historiografen und Chronisten sowie andere historisch relevante Dokumente vom 4. bis 15. Jahrhundert. Das Hauptgewicht jeder Ausgabe liegt in der Erstellung eines kritischen Textes auf der Basis der gesamten handschriftlichen Überlieferung; neben mehreren Apparaten und Indices enthält jeder Band eine ausführliche Einleitung, die über Autor und Werk sowie über die Handschriften und deren Beziehung zueinander informiert.

Der aktuelle Stand der Publikationen der Reihe, die in verschiedenen Verlagen erscheinen, wird jährlich im Journal of Byzantine Studies (JOEB) / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik festgehalten.