The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261 - c. 1360)

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The Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.

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Edmund Fryde F.B.A. was professor of History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
' ...a welcome addition to the growing list of publications dedicated to the late Byzantine period, and its breadth will be especially appreciated by undergraduate and beginning post-graduate students, for whom it will supply a good traditional overview…a practical and accessible survey of a too-little studied period, and will be especially helpful for those of us attempting to teach the period to undergraduates. With its publication, Fryde has paved the way for future generations of scholars to consider the period in a more nuanced way.'
Leslie Brubaker, TMR, 2001.
Edmund Fryde: An Appreciation: Daniel Huws --
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1. Introduction -- 1
2. The Preservation of Greek Literature in Antiquity and the Early Renaissance of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries -- 15
3. From c. 1000 to the Disaster of the Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) -- 38
4. The Nicaean Empire under the Lascarids (1204-58) -- 71
The Beginnings of the Palaeologan Renaissance: The Rule of Michael VIII (1258-82) -- 82
6. The Reign of Andronikos II (1282-1328) -- 91
7. Translations from Greek into Latin, Chiefly in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century -- 103
8. Philological Scholarship, c. 1280-c. 1330: Main Features -- 144
The Scholarly and Literary Audience for the Early Palaeologan Renaissance -- 167
10. Philosophy -- 183
11. Higher Education and Rhetoric -- 213
12. Maximos Planudes (1255-1305) -- 226
13. Demetrios Triklinios -- 268
Manuel Moschopulos, Thomas Magistros and Some of Their Contemporaries -- 295
15. Historiography in the Early Palaeologan Renaissance -- 307
16. Theodore Metochites -- 322
17. Science: Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine -- 337
18. Nikephoros Gregoras -- 357
19. The Twilight of the Scholarly Renaissance (after 1341) -- 374
20. A Comparison Between the Byzantine and Italian Renaissances -- 388
Select Bibliography -- 399
Index of Manuscripts -- 407
Index of Names of Persons (down to c. 1500) -- 409
Index of Modern Authors -- 416
Students of the Byzantine world, the Classical Tradition, the history of texts
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