Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Niketas SiniossoglouSeries:Cambridge Classical StudiesPublish date:2016-09-22Pages:472
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316629598ISBN-10:1316629597UPC:9781316629598Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCXF6ZW7QQ
Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon
Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to intellectual history, exploring the thoughts of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon (c.1355-1452). It argues that Plethon brought to their fulfilment latent tendencies among Byzantine humanists towards a distinctive anti-Christian and pagan outlook. His...
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316629598ISBN-10:1316629597UPC:9781316629598Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.95 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCXF6ZW7QQ
Siniossoglou, Niketas: - Niketas Siniossoglou is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is the author of Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance (Cambridge, 2008).
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