Theodore Metochites

Author : Ioannis Polemis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755651405

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Theodore Metochites by Ioannis Polemis Pdf

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and commentaries on classical and religious texts, in which he discusses the numerous problems that troubled him and his contemporaries, such as the decline of the state and the tension between public life and that of the philosopher. In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Metochites' oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of 'logos'. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire's most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.

Author : Paschos Emmanuel,Simelidis Christos
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813207509

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Introduction To Astronomy By Theodore Metochites: Stoicheiosis Astronomike 1.5-30 by Paschos Emmanuel,Simelidis Christos Pdf

Stoicheiosis Astronomike ("Elements of Astronomy") is a late Byzantine comprehensive introduction to Astronomy. It was written by an outstanding figure in Byzantine culture and politics, who served also as prime minister. This volume makes available for the first time a large part of its astronomical contents, offering the original text with an English translation, accompanied by an introduction and analysis. This book describes the celestial spheres, the rotation of the planets, and especially the apparent trajectory of the sun with its uniform and anomalous rotations, which are used to determine the length of the year. Metochites proposed a new starting date for the calendar (6th of October 1283) specifying the position of the sun on that date. The work revived the interest in studies of Ptolemaic astronomy as attested by numerous annotations in the margins of the manuscripts. Besides its astronomical content there are statements on the epistemological method and other issues elucidating the spirit of that age. It will be of interest as an introduction to Byzantine astronomy for historians of science and philosophy, for astronomers, and those interested in the development of calendars.

Author : Theodoros Metochites,Jeffrey Featherstone
Publisher : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048575693

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Theodore Metochites's Poems "to Himself" by Theodoros Metochites,Jeffrey Featherstone Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004527089

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A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period by Anonim Pdf

Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.

Author : Börje Bydén
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015056789368

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Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiosis Astronomike and the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Early Palaiologan Byzantium by Börje Bydén Pdf

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--G'oteborg, 2003.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Studies in Church History Volume V by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmund Fryde
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474260

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The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261 - c. 1360) by Edmund Fryde Pdf

The Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.

Author : Maria C. Pantelia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780520388208

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae by Maria C. Pantelia Pdf

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works (TLG®) is a comprehensive catalog of the authors and works that have survived in Greek from antiquity (eighth century BCE) to the present era and have been collected and digitized by the TLG® in its fifty-year history. It provides biographical information about each author, such as dates, place of birth, and literary activity, as well as a list of their extant works and print publications. This volume encompasses more than 4,400 authors and 17,000 individual works. It offers a concise and authoritative literary history of Greek literature and is an indispensable reference source for its study.

Author : Rustam Shukurov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000937244

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Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 by Rustam Shukurov Pdf

This book offers a study into the perceptions of ancient and medieval Iran in the Byzantine Empire, as well as the effects of Persian culture upon Byzantine intellectualism, society, and culture. Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650-1461 focuses on the place of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, both in the "religious" and the "secular" sense. By analysing a wide range of historical sources – from church literature to belles-lettres – this book provides an examination of the place of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, as well as the place and function of Persian motifs in the Byzantine mentality. Additionally, the author uses these sources to analyse thoroughly the knowledge Byzantines had about contemporary Iranian culture, the presence of ethnic Iranians and the circulation and usage of the Persian language in Byzantium. Finally, this book discusses the importance and influence of Iranian science on Byzantine scholars. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Byzantine and Iranian History, particularly in reference to the cross-cultural and social influence of the two societies during the Middle Ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004679801

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Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004396753

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides three-dozen studies of nearly 2500 continuous years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates as innovative intellectual, moral exemplar, and singular Athenian.

Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108424745

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Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt Pdf

Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

Author : Michael Saxby,Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317076933

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Power and Subversion in Byzantium by Michael Saxby,Dimiter Angelov Pdf

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 : Professor Kathleen Maxwell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409457443

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Between Constantinople and Rome by Professor Kathleen Maxwell Pdf

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led to the production of Bibliothèque Nationale de France, codex grec 54, one of the most ambitious and complex manuscripts of the Byzantine era. Kathleen Maxwell’s multi-disciplinary approach includes codicological and paleographical evidence together with New Testament textual criticism, artistic and historical analysis. She concludes that Paris 54 was designed to eclipse its contemporaries and to physically embody a new relationship between Constantinople and the Latin West.

Author : Antony Robert Littlewood,Henry Maguire,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022803

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Byzantine Garden Culture by Antony Robert Littlewood,Henry Maguire,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Pdf

Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous illustrated copy of Dioskorides's herbal manual in Vienna. An opening chapter explores questions and observations from the point of view of a non-Byzantine garden historian, and the closing chapter suggests possible directions for future scholarship in the field.