Renaissance Encounters
Greek East and Latin West
Published on 21. November 2012
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-90-04-23591-5 (ISBN)
Description
The present volume has grown out of the conference held at Princeton University on November 12-14, 2009. Its essays explore a coherent, interrelated nexus of topics that illuminate our understanding of the cultural transactions (social, political, economic, religious and artistic) of the Greek East and Latin West: unexpected cultural appropriations and forms of resistance, continuity and change, the construction and hybridization of traditions in a wide expanse of the eastern Mediterranean. Areas that the volume addresses include the benefits and liabilities of periodization, philosophical and political exchanges, monastic syncretism between the Orthodox and Catholic faiths, issues of romance composition, and economic currency and the currency of fashion as East and West interact.
Contributors are Roderick Beaton, Peter Brown, Marina S. Brownlee, Giles Constable, Maria Evangelatou, Dimitri Gondicas, Judith Herrin, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stuart M. McManus, John Monfasani, Maria G. Parani, Linda Safran, Teresa Shawcross and Alan M. Stahl.
Contributors are Roderick Beaton, Peter Brown, Marina S. Brownlee, Giles Constable, Maria Evangelatou, Dimitri Gondicas, Judith Herrin, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stuart M. McManus, John Monfasani, Maria G. Parani, Linda Safran, Teresa Shawcross and Alan M. Stahl.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
This volume will be read with interest by those interested in Byzantine and Medieval history, in cultural interaction and resistance, in periodization, and in the disciplines and institutions of politics, philosophy, religion, art and architecture.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
approx. 336 pp.
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-23591-5 (9789004235915)
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Persons
Marina Brownlee, Ph.D. (1978) in Romance Languages, is the Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and of Comparative Literature at Princeton. She has published extensively on late medieval and early modern Spanish and Comparative literature.
Dimitri Gondicas is Stanley J. Seeger Director, Center for Hellenic Studies, Classics; Lecturer in Classics and Hellenic Studies. His publications include Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism (1999) and Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture (2004).
Dimitri Gondicas is Stanley J. Seeger Director, Center for Hellenic Studies, Classics; Lecturer in Classics and Hellenic Studies. His publications include Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism (1999) and Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture (2004).
Content
List of Illustrations ... ix
List of Contributors ... xv
Introduction
Hellenic Studies at Princeton: Thirtieth Anniversary ... 3
Dimitri Gondicas
The Perils of Periodization ... 5
Marina S. Brownlee
Renaissance Encounters: Preface ... 9
Peter Brown
Part one: Philosophical and Political Exchanges
George Gemistos Plethon and the West: Greek Emigres, Latin Scholasticism, and Renaissance Humanism ... 19
John Monfasani
Renaissance Encounters: Byzantium Meets the West at the Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-9 ... 35
Judith Herrin and Stuart M. McManus
Byzantine and Italian Political Thought Concerning the Rise of Cities before the Renaissance ... 57
Teresa Shawcross
Part Two: Monastic Syncretism
The Meeting of East and West in Medieval Monasticism in Sicily and South Italy ... 97
Giles Constable
Betwixt or Beyond? The Salento in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries ... 115
Linda Safran
Part Three: Iconic Dialogues
Between East and West: The Symbolism of Space in the Art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) ... 147
Maria Evangelatou
Linguistic Encounters: The Presence of Spoken Greek in Sixteenth-Century Venice ... 185
Marc D. Lauxtermann
Part Four: Romance Issues
Boccaccio and the Greek World of His Time: A Missing Link in the "True Story of the Novel"? ... 207
Roderick Beaton
Byzantine Romances: Eastern or Western? ... 217
Elizabeth Jeffreys
Part Five: The Currency of Fashion
The Mediterranean Melting Pot: Monetary Crosscurrents of the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries ... 237
Alan M. Stahl
Encounters in the Realm of Dress: Attitudes towards Western Styles in the Greek East ... 259
Maria G. Parani
Index ... 000
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List of Contributors ... xv
Introduction
Hellenic Studies at Princeton: Thirtieth Anniversary ... 3
Dimitri Gondicas
The Perils of Periodization ... 5
Marina S. Brownlee
Renaissance Encounters: Preface ... 9
Peter Brown
Part one: Philosophical and Political Exchanges
George Gemistos Plethon and the West: Greek Emigres, Latin Scholasticism, and Renaissance Humanism ... 19
John Monfasani
Renaissance Encounters: Byzantium Meets the West at the Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-9 ... 35
Judith Herrin and Stuart M. McManus
Byzantine and Italian Political Thought Concerning the Rise of Cities before the Renaissance ... 57
Teresa Shawcross
Part Two: Monastic Syncretism
The Meeting of East and West in Medieval Monasticism in Sicily and South Italy ... 97
Giles Constable
Betwixt or Beyond? The Salento in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries ... 115
Linda Safran
Part Three: Iconic Dialogues
Between East and West: The Symbolism of Space in the Art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) ... 147
Maria Evangelatou
Linguistic Encounters: The Presence of Spoken Greek in Sixteenth-Century Venice ... 185
Marc D. Lauxtermann
Part Four: Romance Issues
Boccaccio and the Greek World of His Time: A Missing Link in the "True Story of the Novel"? ... 207
Roderick Beaton
Byzantine Romances: Eastern or Western? ... 217
Elizabeth Jeffreys
Part Five: The Currency of Fashion
The Mediterranean Melting Pot: Monetary Crosscurrents of the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries ... 237
Alan M. Stahl
Encounters in the Realm of Dress: Attitudes towards Western Styles in the Greek East ... 259
Maria G. Parani
Index ... 000
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