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Author : Börje Bydén
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015056789368
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--G'oteborg, 2003.
Author : Ioannis Polemis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755651405
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 : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192669926
Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he traces the development of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of Damascus in the eighth century to the late Byzantine scholars of the fifteenth century. He introduces major figures like Michael Psellos, Anna Komnene, and Gregory Palamas, and examines the philosophical significance of such cultural phenomena as iconoclasm and conceptions of gender. We discover the little-known traditions of philosophy in Syriac, Armenian, and Georgian. These chapters also explore the scientific, political, and historical literature of Byzantium. There is a close connection to the second half of the book, since thinkers of the Greek East helped to spark the humanist movement in Italy. Adamson tells the story of the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We encounter such famous names as Christine de Pizan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo, but as always in this book series such major figures are read alongside contemporaries who are not so well known, including such fascinating figures as Lorenzo Valla, Girolamo Savonarola, and Bernardino Telesio. Major historical themes include the humanist engagement with ancient literature, the emergence of women humanists, the flowering of Republican government in Renaissance Italy, the continuation of Aristotelian and scholastic philosophy alongside humanism, and breakthroughs in science. All areas of philosophy, from theories of economics and aesthetics to accounts of the human mind, are featured. This is the sixth volume of Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, taking us to the threshold of the early modern era.
Author : Paschos Emmanuel,Simelidis Christos
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813207509
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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004527089
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 : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310559559
ECPA Christian Book Award 2021 Finalist: Biography & Memoir Explore Apologetics through the Lives of History's Great Apologists The History of Apologetics follows the great apologists in the history of the church to understand how they approached the task of apologetics in their own cultural and theological context. Each chapter looks at the life of a well-known apologist from history, unpacks their methodology, and details how they approached the task of defending the faith. By better understanding how apologetics has been done, readers will be better able to grasp the contextualized nature of apologetics and apply those insights to today's context. The History of Apologetics covers forty-four apologists including: Part One: Patristic Apologists Part Two: Medieval Apologists Part Three: Early Modern Apologists Part Four: 19th C. Apologists Part Five: 20th C. American Apologists Part Six: 20th C. European Apologists Part Seven: Contemporary Apologists
Author : Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402097287
This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. It also provides analyses of particular theories plus cultural and social contexts.
Author : Claudia Rapp,Matthew Kinloch,Dirk Krausmüller,Ekaterini Mitsiou,Ilias Nesseris,Christodoulos Papavarnavas,Johannes Preiser-Kapeller,Giulia Rossetto,Rustam Shukurov,Grigori Simeonov
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783737013413
Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.
Author : Donald A. Russell,Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161524195
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.
Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108424745
Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.
Author : John Marenbon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190246976
This Handbook is intended to show the links between the philosophy written in the Middle Ages and that being done today. Essays by over twenty medieval specialists, who are also familiar with contemporary discussions, explore areas in logic and philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Each topic has been chosen because it is of present philosophical interest, but a more or less similar set of questions was also discussed in the Middle Ages. No party-line has been set about the extent of the similarity. Some writers (e.g. Panaccio on Universals; Cesalli on States of Affairs) argue that there are the closest continuities. Others (e.g. Thom on Logical Form; Pink on Freedom of the Will) stress the differences. All, however, share the aim of providing new analyses of medieval texts and of writing in a manner that is clear and comprehensible to philosophers who are not medieval specialists. The Handbook begins with eleven chapters looking at the history of medieval philosophy period by period, and region by region. They constitute the fullest, most wide-ranging and up-to-date chronological survey of medieval philosophy available. All four traditions - Greek, Latin, Islamic and Jewish (in Arabic, and in Hebrew) - are considered, and the Latin tradition is traced from late antiquity through to the seventeenth century and beyond.
Author : Maria C. Pantelia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780520388208
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 : Amelia Robertson Brown,Bronwen Neil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349070
This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west, from Late Antiquity to the present.
Author : Sergei Mariev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501503597
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 : Ivan Drpić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107151512
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.
