Free Download A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World) edited by Sofia Kotzabassi
English | November 17, 2022 | ISBN: 9004527060 | True PDF | 532 pages | 109 MB
What was happening in Byzantium as the Turks drew ever closer to Constantinople and an interest in classical Greek studies had been rekindled in the West? What was the role of the Byzantine scholars in an Empire facing multiple political and economic problems, and what were the matters that engaged them? What was the importance of teachers, libraries and monasteries to the so-called Palaeologan Renaissance, and what the significance of the theological disputes?