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Author : Börje Bydén
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788299912815
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Many Faces of Byzantine Philosophy written by Börje Bydén and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katerina Ierodiakonou
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199269718
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources written by Katerina Ierodiakonou and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers, for the most part, have not been studied on their own philosophical merit, and their works have hardly been scrutinized as works of philosophy.Thus, although distinguished scholars in the past have tried to reconstruct the intellectual life of the Byzantine period, there is no question that we still lack even the beginnings of a systematic understanding of the philosophy of the Byzantines.Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources is conceived as a concerted attempt in this direction. It examines the attitude the Byzantines took towards the ancient philosophical tradition and the specific ancient sources which they relied upon to form their theories. But did the Byzantines merelycopy ancient philosophers or interpret them the way they already had been interpreted in late antiquity? Does Byzantine philosophy as a whole lack a distinctive character which differentiates it from the previous periods in the history of philosophy?Eleven scholars, representing different disciplines from philosophy and history to classics and medieval studies, approach these questions by thoroughly investigating particular topics which give us some insight as to the directions in which we should look for possible answers. These topics range,in modern terms, from philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, and logic, to political philosophy, ethics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics. The philosophers whose works our contributors study belong to all periods from the beginnings of Byzantine culture in the fourth century to the demiseof the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century.
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856413
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from the 8th century to the 15th century, then he explores the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the era of Machiavelli and Galileo.
Author : Sergei Mariev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503634
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism written by Sergei Mariev and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine intellectuals not only had direct access to Neoplatonic sources in the original language but also, at times, showed a particular interest in them. During the Early Byzantine period Platonism significantly contributed to the development of Christian doctrines and, paradoxically, remained a rival world view that was perceived by many Christian thinkers as a serious threat to their own intellectual identity. This problematic relationship was to become even more complex during the following centuries. Byzantine authors made numerous attempts to harmonize Neoplatonic doctrines with Christianity as well as to criticize, refute and even condemn them. The papers assembled in this volume discuss a number of specific questions and concerns that drew the interest of Byzantine scholars in different periods towards Neoplatonic sources in an attempt to identify and explore the central issues in the reception of Neoplatonic texts during the Byzantine era. This is the first volume of the sub-series "Byzantinisches Archiv - Series Philosophica", which will be dedicated to the rapidly growing field of research in Byzantine philosophical texts.
Author : Siren Çelik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108874649
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425) written by Siren Çelik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Byzantine emperors had a life as rich and as turbulent as Manuel II Palaiologos. A fascinating figure at the crossroads of Byzantine, Western European and Ottoman history, he endured political turmoil, witnessed no less than three sieges by the Ottomans and travelled as far as France and England. He was a prolific writer, producing a vast corpus of literary, theological and philosophical works. Yet, despite his talent, Manuel has largely been ignored as an author. This biography constructs an in-depth picture of him of as a ruler, author and personality, as well as providing insight into his world and times. It offers the first analysis of the emperor's complete oeuvre, focusing on his literary style, self-representation philosophical/theological thought. By focusing not only on political events, but also on the personality, personal life and literary output of Manuel, this biography paints a new portrait of a multifaceted emperor.
Author : Baukje van den Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651465X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th15th Centuries written by Baukje van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the importance of ancient literature for Byzantine society and explores various ways of recycling and understanding ancient works.
Author : Nikolaos Loudovikos
Publisher : ST MAXIM THE GREEK INSTITUTE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Analogia written by Nikolaos Loudovikos and published by ST MAXIM THE GREEK INSTITUTE. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “…post-modern thought allowed the emergence of the question of Metaphysics again. This also makes possible a rethinking of the science-theology relation in a new light. The aim of this volume is precisely to shed a glimpse of this new light upon this ongoing conversation, by now involving Orthodox Theology in it. The possible contribution of Orthodox Theology to this discussion, in the context of the Christian Greek-Western world, can be path-breaking…” (From the Note of the Senior Editor) Contents: 1. Patristic Views On The Nature And Status Of Scientific Knowledge, JEAN-CLAUDE LARCHET, 2. The Dialogue between Orthodox Theology and Science as Explication of the Human Condition, ALEXEI NESTERUK, 3. Actor-Network Theory and Byzantine Philosophy, GEORGI KAPRIEV, 4. The Cosmos in the Bible and science, GEORGIOS GOUNARIS, 5. Quantum Physics and Christian Faith, JOHN BRECK, 6. Exploring Analogy of Debates to Approach the Encounter between Orthodox Theology and Quantum Physics, STOYAN TANEV, 7. Logic of Mystery: Reading Wittgenstein in parallel to Orthodox theology and quantum theory, TIM LABRON, 8. Psychoanalysis And Eschatology, NIKOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, 9. Theology and the Discovery of the Unconscious: Preliminary Remarks, NIKOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, 10. Ways of Comprehending, ATHANASIOS FOKAS, 11. Evolution, Genetics, and Nature: Implications for Orthodox, GAYLE E. WOLOSCHACK
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110821021X
Total Pages : 1438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium written by Anthony Kaldellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.
Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351979086
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium written by Averil Cameron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue tradition in Greek from imperial Rome to the end of the Byzantine empire and beyond. Sixteen case studies combine theoretical approaches with in-depth analysis and include comparisons with the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian, Armenian and Latin traditions. Following an introduction and a discussion of Plutarch as a writer of dialogues, other chapters consider the Erostrophus, a philosophical dialogue in Syriac, John Chrysostom’s On Priesthood, issues of literariness and complexity in the Greek Adversus Iudaeos dialogues, the Trophies of Damascus, Maximus Confessor’s Liber Asceticus and the middle Byzantine apocryphal revelation dialogues. The volume demonstrates a new frequency in middle and late Byzantium of rhetorical, theological and literary dialogues, concomitant with the increasing rhetoricisation of Byzantine literature, and argues for a move towards new and exciting experiments. Individual chapters examine the Platonising and anti-Latin dialogues written in the context of Anselm of Havelberg’s visits to Constantinople, the theological dialogue by Soterichos Panteugenos, the dialogues of Niketas ‘of Maroneia’ and the literary dialogues by Theodore Prodromos, all from the twelfth century. The final chapters explore dialogues from the empire’s Georgian periphery and discuss late Byzantine philosophical, satirical and verse dialogues by Nikephoros Gregoras, Manuel II Palaiologos and George Scholarios, with special attention to issues of form, dramatisation and performance.
Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633861128
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Arguing it Out written by Averil Cameron and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in Byzantine history, especially in its literary production. It was a time of intense creativity as well as of rising tensions, and one for which literary approaches are a lively area in current scholarship. This study focuses on the prose dialogues in Greek from this period—of very varying kinds—and on what they can tell us about the society and culture of an era when western Europe was itself developing a new culture of schools, universities, and scholars. Yet it was also the period in which Byzantium felt the fateful impact of the Crusades, which ended with the momentous sack of Constantinople in 1204. Despite revisionist attempts to play down the extent of this disaster, it was a blow from which, arguably, the Byzantines never fully recovered.
Author : Marcus Bajema
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004533567
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Throwing the Dice of History with Marx written by Marcus Bajema and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Bajema seeks to use the greater emphasis on chance and the aleatory in recent Marxist theory to rethink major aspects of historical materialism, emphasising especially the plurality of historical time and space.
Author : Baukje van den Berg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192865439
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Homer the Rhetorician written by Baukje van den Berg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed special popularity under the Komnenian emperors. For Eustathios, Homer was the supreme paradigm of eloquence and wisdom. Writing for an audience of aspiring or practising prose writers, he explains in his commentary what it is that makes Homer's composition so successful in rhetorical terms. This study explores the exemplary qualities that Eustathios recognizes in the poet as author and the Iliad as rhetorical masterpiece. In this way, it advances our understanding of the rhetorical thought of a leading intellectual and the role of a cultural authority as respected as Homer in one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history.
Author : Börje Bydén
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319269046
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism written by Börje Bydén and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Aristotelian psychology through his works and commentaries on them, including De Sensu, De Memoria and De Somno et Vigilia. Authors present original research papers inviting readers to consider the provenance of Aristotelian ideas and interpretations of them, on topics ranging from reality to dreams and spirituality. Aristotle’s doctrine of the ‘common sense’, his notion of transparency and the generation of colours are amongst the themes explored. Chapters are presented chronologically, enabling the reader to trace influences across the boundaries of linguistic traditions. Commentaries from historical figures featured in this work include those of Michael of Ephesus (c. 1120), Albert the Great and Gersonides’ (1288–1344). Discoveries in 9th-century Arabic adaptations, Byzantine commentaries and Renaissance paraphrases of Aristotle’s work are also presented. The editors’ introduction outlines the main historical developments of the themes discussed, preparing the reader for the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives presented in this work. Scholars of philosophy and psychology and those with an interest in Aristotelianism will highly value the original research that is presented in this work. The Introduction and Chapter 4 of this book are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Michael Saxby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317076923
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Power and Subversion in Byzantium written by Michael Saxby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written', scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. This innovative scholarly effort has produced important results, although it has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians, art historians, and scholars of literature, religion and philosophy, who discussed shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. The present volume presents a selection of the papers delivered at the symposium enriched with specially commissioned contributions. Most papers deal with the period after the eleventh century, although early Byzantium is not ignored. Theoretical questions about the nature, articulation and limits of subversion are addressed within the frameworks of individual disciplines and in a larger context. The volume comes at a timely junction in the development of Byzantine studies, as interest in subversion and nonconformity in general has been rising steadily in the field.
Author : Michael Jeffreys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198787227
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Psellos written by Michael Jeffreys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a preeminent Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer. Structured in two parts, it juxtaposes five essays offering detailed historical and literary analyses of selected letters with annotated summaries of the entirety of Psellos' correspondence.
Author : Eva Anagnostou
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527850
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims written by Eva Anagnostou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume authors working across different disciplines of late antique and medieval thought explore the reception of Platonic and Neoplatonic tenets among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Author : Michael Edward Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429633408
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium written by Michael Edward Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specific categories of group and individual identity. The topics are Imperial Identities; Romanitas in the Late Antique Mediterranean; Macro and Micro Identities: Religious, Regional, and Ethnic Identities, and Internal Others; and Gendered Identities: Literature, Memory, and Self in Early and Middle Byzantium. While no single volume could ever provide a comprehensive vision of identities on the vast variety of peoples within Byzantium over nearly a millennium of its history, this handbook represents a milestone in offering a survey of the vibrant surge of scholarship examining the numerous and oft-times fluctuating codes of identity that shaped and transformed Byzantium and its neighbours during the empire’s long life.
