A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period.

"What was happening in Byzantium as the Turks drew ever closer to Constantinople and an interest in classical Greek studies had been rekindled in the West? What was the role of the Byzantine scholars in an Empire facing multiple political and economic problems, and what were the matters that en...

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Superior document:Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
©2023.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World
Physical Description:1 online resource (531 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Intellectual Life in the Palaeologan Period: Persons, Genres and Trends
  • Chapter 1 The "Legacy" of Aphthonios, Hermogenes and Pseudo-Menander: Aspects of Byzantine Rhetoric under the Palaiologoi
  • Chapter 2 Intellectual Pursuits for Their Own Sake
  • Chapter 3 Continuity and Evolution in Autobiographical Literature
  • Chapter 4 Writing the History of Decline
  • Chapter 5 Spirituality and Emotion: Poetic Trends in the Palaeologan Period
  • Chapter 6 Epistolography, Social Exchange and Intellectual Discourse (1261-1453)
  • Chapter 7 The Reappropriation of Philosophy in the Palaeologan Period
  • Chapter 8 Κόσμου θεωρία: Cosmic Vision and Its Significance in the Works of Theodore Metochites and Other Contemporary Intellectuals
  • Chapter 9 Monasticism and Intellectual Trends in Late Byzantium
  • Chapter 10 The Hesychast Controversy: Events, Personalities, Texts and Trends
  • Chapter 11 Working in the Imperial and Patriarchal Chanceries
  • Chapter 12 Public and Private Libraries in Byzantium
  • General Bibliography
  • Index of Manuscripts and Documents
  • Index of Places
  • General Index.