Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy

Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Dates
Maps
Part I. Philosophy in Byzantium
	1. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
	2. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
	3. Don’t Picture This: Iconoclasm
	4. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus
	5. Collectors’ Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations
	6. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos
	7. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning
	8. Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy
	9. The Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium
	10. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography
	11. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and Her Circle
	12. Wiser than Men: Gender in Byzantium
	13. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium
	14. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts
	15. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival
	16. People of the South: Byzantium and Islam
	17. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
	18. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm
	19. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium
	20. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon
	21. Istanbul (Not Constantinople): The Later Orthodox Tradition
Part II. The Italian Renaissance
	22. Old News: The Italian Renaissance
	23. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy
	24. Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism
	25. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla
	26. Difficult to be Good: Humanist Ethics
	27. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic Philosophy
	28. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan
	29. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists
	30. All About Eve: The Defense of Women
	31. I’d Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism
	32. Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino
	33. True Romance: Theories of Love
	34. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
	35. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola
	36. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature
	37. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola
	38. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism
	39. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli
	40. Sense of Humors: Machiavelli on Republicanism
	41. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography
	42. The Good Place: Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
	43. Greed is Good: Economics in the Italian Renaissance
	44. Town and Gown: Italian Universities
	45. I’d Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
	46. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
	47. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method
	48. The Measure of All Things: Mathematics and Art
	49. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine
	50. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano
	51. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature
	52. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology
	53. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno
	54. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance
Notes
Further Reading
Index