Screen LibraryThe Cambridge intellectual history of Byzantium /
"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 fi...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Item Description: | Includes attached timeline. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 791 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-763) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781107041813 1107041813 |
| Index Number: | DF521 |
| CLC: | K134 |
| Call Number: | K134/C178-1 |
| Contents: |
The Transmission of Knowledge -- Institutional settings : the court, schools, church, and monasteries / Byzantine books / Questions and answers / Classical scholarship : the Byzantine contribution / Intellectual exchanges with the Arab world / Sciences of the Word -- Rhetoric and rhetorical theory / Byzantine literary criticism and the classical heritage / Theories of art / Legal thought / Sciences of the World -- Conceptions of science in Byzantium / Astronomy / Astrology / Magic and the occult sciences / Alchemy / Medical thought and practice / Philosophy and Theology in Middle Byzantium -- Philosophy and "Byzantine philosophy" / The formation of the Patristic Tradition / Platonic Themes -- The Byzantine reception of Neoplatonism / Platonism from Maximos the Confessor to the Palaiologan period / Fate, free choice, and divine providence from the Neoplatonists to John of Damascus / Aristotelian Themes -- Logic in Byzantium / The presence of Aristotle in Byzantine theology / Reading and commenting on Aristotle / Individuals in Context -- Maximos the Confessor / John of Damascus' philosophy of the individual and the theology of icons / Michael Psellos / Trials of philosophers and theologians under the Komnenoi / Philosophy and Theology in Late Byzantium -- Theological debates with the West, 1054-1300 / The Hesychast controversy / Orthodox mystical theology and its intellectual roots / Kabbalah in Byzantium / Aquinas in Byzantium / Theology, philosophy, and politics at Ferrara-Florence / Politics and History -- Basileia : the idea of monarchy in Byzantium, 600-1200 / Historiography as political debate / Theories of decline from Metochites to Ibn Khaldūn / Plethon, Scholarios, and the late Byzantine state of emergency / The Byzantine legacy in early modern political thought / |