Chronography

Title(s):
  • Chronography
  • Χρονογραφία
    (Chronographia, Chronography)
Period covered:
285-813
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
The autorship of the chronicle has been questioned by Mango (1979) and Speck (1994), who both assume that Theophanes simply edited the material gathered by George Syncellus. The list of used sources is mainly based on Mango - Scott (1997), but is not to be considered exhaustive and definitive, since scholarship on the subject is in continuous progress.
Edition - Translation:
  • C. de Boor (1883-1885) Theophanis Chronographia. Leipzig.
  • C. Mango, R. Scott (1997) The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern history A.D. 284-813. Oxford.
  • H. Turtledove (1992) The Chronicle of Theophanes: An English translation of AM 6095-6305 (AD 602-813). Philadelphia.
Fragments:
Bibliography:
  • W. Brandes (2009) 'Der frühe Islam in der byzantinischen Historiographie: Annmerkungen zur Quellenproblematik der "Chronographia" des Theophanes'. In: Jenseits der Grenzen: Beiträge zur spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Geschichtsshreibung, ed. A. Goltz - H. Leppin - H. Schlange-Schöningen (Millennium studies, 25). Berlin: 313-344.
  • B. Coulie, P. Yannopoulos (1998) Thesaurus Theophanis Confessoris: Chronographia (Corpus Christianorum: Thesaurus Patrum Graecorum, 63). Turnhout.
  • F. Montinaro, M. Jankowiak (2014) (ed.) Studies in Theophanes. Paris.
  • A. Kazhdan (1999) A history of Byzantine literature (650-850). Athens: 205-234.
  • C. Mango (1984) 'Who wrote the Chronicle of Theophanes?' In: Byzantium and its image: History and culture of the Byzantine Empire and its heritage, ed. C. Mango (Variorum reprints). London = Mango, C. (1979) 'Who wrote the Chronicle of Theophanes?' Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta 18: 9-17.
  • F. Montinaro, M. Jankowiak (2014) (ed.) Studies in Theophanes. Paris.
  • G. Moravcsik (1958) Byzantinoturcica: Die byzantinischen Quellen der Geschichte der Türkvölker. Berlin: 531-537.
  • L. Neville (2018) Guide to Byzantine historical writing. Cambridge.
  • I. Rochow (1991) Byzanz im 8. Jahrhundert in der Sicht des Theophanes: Quellenkritisch-historischer Kommentar zu de Jahren 715-813 (Berliner Byzantinische Arbeiten, 57). Berlin.
  • P. Speck (1988) Das geteilte Dossier: Beobachtungen zu den Nachrichten über die Regierung des Kaisers Herakleios und die seiner Söhne bei Theophanes und Nikephoros (Poikila Byzantina, 9). Bonn.
  • P. Speck (1994) 'Der "zweite" Theophanes: Eine These zur Chronographie des Theophanes'. In: Freie Universität Berlin: Byzantinisch-neugriechische Seminar, ed. T. Pratsch - C. Sode - P. Speck - S. Takàcs (Poikila Byzantina, 13). Bonn: 431-483.
  • W.T. Treadgold (2013) The middle Byzantine historians. Basingstoke.
  • B. Coulie, P. Yannopoulos (1998) Thesaurus Theophanis Confessoris: Chronographia (Corpus Christianorum: Thesaurus Patrum Graecorum, 63). Turnhout.
  • P. Yannopoulos (2000) Les vicissitudes historiques de la Chronique de Théophane. Byzantion 70: 527-553.