Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6

by Adamson, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780198942115
• ISBN10: 0198942117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-06-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter Adamson, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Peter Adamson received his BA from Williams College and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He worked at King's College London from 2000 until 2012. Adamson subsequently moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, and he is the host of the popular History of Philosophy podcast.

Table of Contents

PrefacePhilosophy in Byzantium1. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy2. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian3. Don't Picture This: Iconoclasm4. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus5. Collectors Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations6. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos7. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning8. Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy9. Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium10. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography11. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle12. Wiser than Men: Gender in Byzantium13. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium14. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts15. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival16. People of the South: Byzantium and Islam17. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance18. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm19. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium20. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon21. Istanbul (not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox TraditionThe Italian Renaissance22. Old News: Introduction to the Renaissance23. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy24. Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism25. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla26. Difficult to be Good: Humanist Ethics27. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic philosophy28. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan29. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists30. All About Eve: the Defence of Women31. I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism32. Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino33. True Romance: Theories of Love34. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy35. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola36. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature37. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola38. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism39. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli40. Sense of Humors: Machiavelli on Republicanism41. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography42. No Place Like Home: Renaissance Utopias43. Greed is Good: Renaissance Economics44. Town and Gown: Italian Universities45. I'd Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy46. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect47. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method48. The Measure of All Things: Mathematics and Art49. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine50. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano51. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature52. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology53. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno54. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance