Byzantine Humanism: The First Phase

Byzantine Humanism: The First Phase: Notes and Remarks on Education and Culture in Byzantium from Its Origins to the 10th Century......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Translators' note......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
I The Break in Hellenic Culture in the West......Page 17
Il The Hypothesis of a Link through Syria and the Arabs......Page 33
Ill The Fate of Secular Hellenism in Byzantium during the first three centuries of the Empire......Page 59
IV The Dark Ages: Break or continuity?......Page 97
V Intellectual Ferment, Curiosity and Technical Progress: The first great figures......Page 137
VI Leo the Philosopher ( or Mathematician) and his Times......Page 187
VIl Photios and Classicism......Page 221
VIII Arcthas of Patras......Page 253
IX The Schools from Bardas to Constantine Porphyrogcnnetos......Page 297
X The Encyclopedism of the Tenth Century......Page 325
Conclusion......Page 363
Index......Page 371
Notable Greek Terms......Page 393
List of Manuscripts Cited......Page 397