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Scholars of Byzantium

N. G. Wilson
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Note on the revised edition, 1996 (page viii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Abbreviations (page x)
  • 1. Introduction
    • (i) Literacy culture in Byzantium (page 1)
    • (ii) Atticism (page 4)
    • (iii) The ancient authors and the Christians (page 8)
    • (iv) Censorship (page 12)
    • (v) The ancient authors as school texts (page 18)
  • 2. The Schools of Late Antiquity
    • (i) Antioch (page 28)
    • (ii) Gaza (page 30)
    • (iii) Scholia (page 33)
    • (iv) Athens (page 36)
    • (v) Alexandria (page 42)
    • (vi) Constantinople (page 49)
  • 3. Dark Ages and Iconoclasm
    • (i) Interlude (page 61)
    • (ii) Two changes in production: paper and a new script (page 63)
    • (iii) Fresh signs of activity (page 68)
  • 4. A New Start
    • (i) Leo the Philosopher (page 79)
    • (ii) The evidence of manuscripts from c. 800 to c. 875 (page 85)
  • 5. Photius
    • (i) Introduction (page 89)
    • (ii) The Lexicon (page 90)
    • (iii) The Bibliotheca (page 93)
    • (iv) The letters (page 111)
    • (v) The Amphilochia (page 114)
  • 6. Arethas
    • (i) The extant manuscripts (page 120)
    • (ii) Other texts (page 126)
    • (iii) Arethas as a reader (page 130)
  • 7. From Arethas' Contemporaries to the End of the Tenth Century
    • (i) The activity of copyists (page 136)
    • (ii) Education and patronage (page 140)
    • (iii) The Suda (page 145)
  • 8. The Eleventh Century
    • (i) Introduction: the schools (page 148)
    • (ii) John Mauropous (page 151)
    • (iii) John Italos (page 153)
    • (iv) Michael Psellos (page 156)
    • (v) Some critical essays on Christian authors (page 166)
    • (vi) Response to the classics of pagan literature (page 172)
    • (vii) The epitome of Dio Cassius (page 179)
  • 9. From Alexius Comnenus to the Fourth Crusade
    • (i) The early years (page 180)
    • (ii) Gregory of Corinth (page 184)
    • (iii) The brothers Tzetzes (page 190)
    • (iv) Eustathius (page 196)
    • (v) Michael Choniates (page 204)
    • (vi) A mysterious partnership (page 206)
  • 10. Greek in Italy and Sicily
    • (i) From late antiquity to the eleventh century (page 209)
    • (ii) The twelfth century (page 212)
    • (iii) An essay on a Greek novel (page 216)
  • 11. Disaster and Recovery
    • (i) Nicaea (page 218)
    • (ii) Gregory of Cyprus (page 223)
    • (iii) Other evidence (page 225)
    • (iv) A second glance westwards (page 226)
  • 12. The Palaeologan Revival
    • (i) Introduction (page 229)
    • (ii) Maximus Planudes (page 230)
    • (iii) Some lesser contemporaries (page 241)
    • (iv) Other students of Greek poetry (page 244)
    • (v) Demetrius Triclinius (page 249)
    • (vi) Theodorus Metochites (page 256)
  • 13. The Epigoni (page 265)
  • Epilogue (page 273)
  • Addenda (page 276)
  • Index (page 280)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CW 78.1 (Sep. - Oct. 1984): 47-48 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4349670
SP 61.2 (Apr. 1986): 484-486 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2854093
JAOS 110.1 (Jan. - Mar. 1990): 167-168 http://www.jstor.org/stable/603979
CP 83.4 (Oct. 1988): 342-360 http://www.jstor.org/stable/269513
JHS 105 (1985): 249-250 http://www.jstor.org/stable/631631
Citable Link
Published: c1996
Publisher: Duckworth
ISBN(s)
  • 9780915651085 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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