Byzantine Humanism: The First Phase: Notes and Remarks on Education and Culture in Byzantium from Its Origins to the 10th Century

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Translators' note

Introduction

I The Break in Hellenic Culture in the West

Il The Hypothesis of a Link through Syria and the Arabs

Ill The Fate of Secular Hellenism in Byzantium during the first three centuries of the Empire

IV The Dark Ages: Break or continuity?

V Intellectual Ferment, Curiosity and Technical Progress: The first great figures

VI Leo the Philosopher ( or Mathematician) and his Times

VIl Photios and Classicism

VIII Arcthas of Patras

IX The Schools from Bardas to Constantine Porphyrogcnnetos

X The Encyclopedism of the Tenth Century

Conclusion

Index

Notable Greek Terms

List of Manuscripts Cited