| An investigation into the publishing history of the Bonn Corpus of Byzantine historians, begun by B. G. Niebuhr in collaboration with Bonn publisher Weber in 1827, drawing on archive material from the Berlin Academy of Sciences. The author concludes that the series failed to live up to initial expectations, owing to an anachronistic approach adopted at the outset, and other miscalculations on the part of both the publisher and the Academy, which assumed academic responsibility for the project after Niebuhr’s death in 1831. Problems were further compounded by a marked decrease in interest in Byzantine history from the late 1820s onwards. |