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Oppose, two different efforts in two different centuries, by different people with different methodologies. The articles are short, but have the potential to be expanded. Constantine ✍ 10:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I agree with Constantine. The CFHB is clearly inspired by the CSHB in its use of parallel texts (Greek and facing translation), and in its broader conceptual aim of editing all key texts for the study of Byzantine history in a single series; the project itself came out of general dissatisfaction with the quality of many of the CSHB volumes. Yet while the two series deal with many of the same texts, the CFHB edits them from scratch using entirely different methodological approaches, and has in fact added many texts that were never included in the CSHB. There is no formal institutional or individual link between the two. As the website for the CFHB has it: "The purpose of the new series [my emphasis] was to provide modern editions, in keeping with current standards of textual criticism, of previously unedited or inadequately edited texts" (http://www.oeaw.ac.at/byzanz/cfhb_main.htm). The CFHB page should be expanded, not merged. J. C. Ransohoff (talk) 15:15, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
