''L'Annalistique romaine'' is a three-volume collection of scholarly editions of fragmentary Roman historical texts edited by Martine Chassignet, a professor of history and specialist in

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

Nancy 2 University Nancy 2 University (''Université Nancy 2'') was a French university located in Nancy, France, Nancy, France. It was a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.Historicorum Romanorum reliquiae The ''Historicorum Romanorum reliquiae'' is the "monumental" two-volume collection of scholarly editions of fragmentary Roman historical texts edited by Hermann Peter and published between 1870 and 1914. Peter published the Latin editions of these ...

'' by Hermann Peter, published between 1870 and 1914. Chassignet, whose 1986 edition of

Cato the Elder Marcus Porcius Cato (; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor ( la, Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write histo ...

's ''

Origines (, "Origins") is the title of a lost work on Roman and Italian history by Cato the Elder, composed in the early-2nd centuryBC. Contents According to Cato's biographer Cornelius Nepos, the ''Origins'' consisted of seven books. Book I was the hi ...

'' was praised by critics, acknowledged Peter's as the model for her edition, which for the most part has the same selection of authors and texts. In the middle of the twentieth century there were repeated calls (including by

Felix Jacoby Felix Jacoby (; 19 March 1876 – 10 November 1959) was a German classicist and philologist. He is best known among classicists for his highly important work ''Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'', a collection of text fragments of ancient Gr ...

, editor of a similar collection of Greek fragments, ''

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'') for an updated, revised edition of the fragments. Chassignet's edition is praised for its judicious and conservative commentary and its standard of scholarship. At the same time, one reviewer remarked that the "historiographical edifice" of Peter's edition is retained in Chassignet's edition, and that the practice of regarding problems of authorship as necessary and soluble should be recast into "a more permissive approach, which allows readers to make sense for themselves of the possibilities for diverse readings of these mutilated ghosts." Other editors besides Chassignet have taken up the project of publishing the important fragments of Roman literary tradition, including E. Courtney (''Fragmentary Latin Poets'') and Henrica Malcovati (''Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta''); a multi-volume edition of such texts, ''The Fragmentary Roman Historians'', edited by a team of British scholars under the direction of

Tim Cornell Timothy J. Cornell (born 1946) is a British historian specializing in ancient Rome. He is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester, having retired from his teaching position in 2011. Cornell received his bachelor's ...

from the

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was announced as in press in 2011 with Oxford UP.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Annalistique romaine Latin works about history Series of books 20th-century history books 21st-century history books History books about ancient Rome