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18 The Byzantine Reception of Neoplatonism 9 7 8 1 1 0 7 0 4 1 8 1 3 K A L D E L L I S – T H E C A M B R I D G E I N T E L L E C T UA L H I S T O R Y O F B Y Z A N T I U M J A C K E T C M Y K
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19 Platonism from Maximos the Confessor to the Palaiologan Period A N D R E W L O U T H 20 Fate, Free Choice, and Divine Providence from the Neoplatonists to John of Damascus K E N PA R RY
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21 Logic in Byzantium C H R I S T O P H E E R I S M A N N 22 The Presence of Aristotle in Byzantine Theology D AV I D B R A D S H AW
23 Reading and Commenting on Aristotle MICHELE TR IZIO
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24 Maximos the Confessor P H I L B O O T H 25 John of Damascus’ Philosophy of the Individual and the Theology of Icons A N N A Z H Y R K O VA 26 Michael Psellos D AV I D J E N K I N S 27 Trials of Philosophers and Theologians under the Komnenoi M I C H E L E T R I Z I O PA RT V: P H I L O S O P H Y A N D T H E O L O G Y I N L AT E BY Z A N T I U M
28 Theological Debates with the West, 1054–1300 T I A KO L B A B A
29 The Hesychast Controversy N O R M A N R U S S E L L 30 Orthodox Mystical Theology and its Intellectual Roots A N D R E W L O U T H 31 Kabbalah in Byzantium M O S H E I D E L 32 Aquinas in Byzantium M A R C U S P L E S T E D 33 Theology, Philosophy, and Politics at FerraraFlorence M A R I E - H É L È N E B L A N C H E T PA RT V I : P O L I T I C S A N D H I S T O RY
34 Basileia: The Idea of Monarchy in Byzantium, 600–1200 PA U L M A G D A L I N O 35 Historiography as Political Debate DIMITR IS KR ALLIS
36 Theories of Decline from Metochites to Ibn Khaldūn T E R E S A S H AW C R O S S 37 Plethon, Scholarios, and the Byzantine State of Emergency N I K E T A S S I N I O S S O G L O U 38 The Byzantine Legacy in Early Modern Political Thought PA S C H A L I S M . K I T R O M I L I D E S P R I N TE D I N TH E UN ITE D STA TE S O F A ME RIC A
T H E C A M B R I D G E I n t e l l e c t u a l H I S T O RY o f Byzantium EDIT ED BY ANT HON Y K ALDELLI S AND NI K ETAS S I NI OS S OGLOU
This volume brings the field of Byzantine intellectual history into being. 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.
Introduction: A N T H O N Y
K A LDELLIS A N D
N I K E TA S S I N IO S S O G L O U
TH E C A M B R I DG E Intellectual H I STO RY OF
T H E C A M BR I D GE I n t e l l e c t ua l H I S T O RY O F
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1 Institutional Settings: The Court, Schools, Church, and Monasteries J O N A T H A N H A R R I S 2 Byzantine Books I N M A C U L A D A P É R E Z M A R T Í N 3 Questions and Answers STEPH ANOS EFT HYMIADIS
4 Classical Scholarship: The Byzantine Contribution E L E A N O R D I C K E Y 5 Intellectual Exchanges with the Arab World DI M I T R I G U TA S , A N T HON Y K A L DE L L I S , A N D BR I A N LONG
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6 Rhetoric and Rhetorical Theory S T R A T I S PA PA I O A N N O U
7 Byzantine Literary Criticism and the Classical Heritage M A N O L I S B O U R B O U H A K I S 8 Theories of Art C H A R L E S B A R B E R 9 Legal Thought B E R N A R D S T O L T E
Anthony Kaldellis is a Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University and a leading scholar of Byzantium. He has published numerous translations, articles, and books, including The Byzantine Republic: People and Power at New Rome (2015), Ethnography after Antiquity (2013), Hellenism in Byzantium (Cambridge 2008), and The Christian Parthenon (Cambridge 2009).
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10 Conceptions of Science in Byzantium O’M E A R A 11 Astronomy A N N E T I H O N 12 Astrology PA U L M A G D A L I N O 13 Magic and the Occult Sciences
Niketas Siniossoglou is a Research Associate at the National Hellenic Research Foundation and is a historian of ancient and modern philosophy. His publications include Plato and Theodoret (Cambridge 2008), Radical Platonism in Byzantium (Cambridge 2011), and Ἀλλόκοτος Ἑλληνισμός: Δοκίμιο γιὰ τὴν ὁριακὴ ἐμπειρία τῶν ἰδεῶν (2016).
DOM I N IC
RICHARD GREENFIELD
14 Alchemy G E R A S I M O S M E R I A N O S 15 Medical Thought and Practice T I MOT H Y S. M ILLER
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A N T HON Y K A L DEL L I S AND N I K E TA S S I N I O S S O G L O U
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16 Philosophy and “Byzantine Philosophy” DI M I T R I G U TA S A N D N I K E TA S S I N IO S S O G L O U
17 The Formation of the Patristic Tradition JOH N A. MCGUCK I N