The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones
Title | The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Ryder |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2010-06-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004189440 |
The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was one of the key Byzantine political and intellectual figures of the time, and his writings are regarded as one of the most important sources for study of the period. Kydones’ career spanned at least four decades, from the 1340s to the 1380s. A Latin scholar, influenced in particular by the writings of Thomas Aquinas (some of which he translated into Greek), Kydones was a leading advocate of improvement of relations between Byzantium and the Latin West as crucial to Byzantine survival. This book examines Kydones’ career and writings, investigating how they can contribute to developing a nuanced understanding of Byzantine political and cultural developments in these years of crisis.
The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones
Title | The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Gilliland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Byzantine Empire |
ISBN |
Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150
Title | Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199641889 |
A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which transcend traditional interpretations of the eastern Mediterranean in the later medieval period.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Title | Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Sgarbi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 3618 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3319141694 |
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
The Papacy and the Orthodox
Title | The Papacy and the Orthodox PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Edward Siecienski |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190245255 |
The Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues. Siecienski masterfully brings together all of the biblical, patristic, and historical material necessary to understand this longstanding debate. This book is an invaluable resource as both Catholics and Orthodox continue to reexamine the sources and history of the debate.
Orthodox Constructions of the West
Title | Orthodox Constructions of the West PDF eBook |
Author | George E. Demacopoulos |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2013-09-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0823252094 |
The category of the “West” has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be the essence of Orthodoxy and, thus, ironically has become a constitutive aspect of the modern Orthodox self. The essays collected in this volume examine the many factors that contributed to the “Eastern” construction of the “West” in order to understand why the “West” is so important to the Eastern Christian’s sense of self.
A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period
Title | A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 531 |
Release | 2022-11-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004527087 |
Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.