Author: Ioannis Polemis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755651413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and commentaries on classical and religious texts, in which he discusses the numerous problems that troubled him and his contemporaries, such as the decline of the state and the tension between public life and that of the philosopher. In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Metochites' oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of 'logos'. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire's most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.
Theodore Metochites
Author: Ioannis Polemis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755651413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and commentaries on classical and religious texts, in which he discusses the numerous problems that troubled him and his contemporaries, such as the decline of the state and the tension between public life and that of the philosopher. In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Metochites' oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of 'logos'. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire's most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755651413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and commentaries on classical and religious texts, in which he discusses the numerous problems that troubled him and his contemporaries, such as the decline of the state and the tension between public life and that of the philosopher. In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Metochites' oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of 'logos'. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire's most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.
Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiosis Astronomike and the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Early Palaiologan Byzantium
Author: Börje Bydén
Publisher: ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--G'oteborg, 2003.
Publisher: ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--G'oteborg, 2003.
Theodore Metochites's Poems "to Himself"
Author: Theodoros Metochites
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004527087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004527087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.
Theodore Metochites' sententious notes
Author: Theodoros Metochites
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789173469937
Category :
Languages : el
Pages : 215
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789173469937
Category :
Languages : el
Pages : 215
Book Description
Theodore Metochites, the Chora, and the Intellectual Trends of His Time
Author: Ihor Ševčenko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Semeioseis Gnomikai
Author: Theodoros Metochites
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Theodore Metochites: Statesman and Philosopher, 1270-1332
Author: Frederick Lauritzen
Publisher: Franciscan University Press
ISBN: 9781736656181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theodore Metochites (1270-1328) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and statemen of the Byzantine Empire. Metochites and his rival Nikephoros Choumnos (1250-1327) animated the philosophical and cul-tural debate in Constantinople in the early fourteenth century. Each held the title of mesazon (μεσάζων), a powerful position in the Byzantine gov-ernment, and both men were active just before the controversy concern-ing the "divine light" and mystic contemplation (Hesychasm) that broke out in 1340. They had become monks before the synods were gathered to decide whether Gregory Palamas was Orthodox or not, resulting in his victory (Synods of Constantinople of 1341, 1347, 1351). Metochites is fa-mous for his artistic patronage of the Monastery of Saint Saviour in Cho-ra (Kariye Camii), where he retired. The monastery's mosaics and frescoes are among the greatest witnesses to Byzantine aesthetics. Metochites's writings are significant in the Byzantine era and are presented in this vol-ume by some of the principal specialists of his work.
Publisher: Franciscan University Press
ISBN: 9781736656181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theodore Metochites (1270-1328) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and statemen of the Byzantine Empire. Metochites and his rival Nikephoros Choumnos (1250-1327) animated the philosophical and cul-tural debate in Constantinople in the early fourteenth century. Each held the title of mesazon (μεσάζων), a powerful position in the Byzantine gov-ernment, and both men were active just before the controversy concern-ing the "divine light" and mystic contemplation (Hesychasm) that broke out in 1340. They had become monks before the synods were gathered to decide whether Gregory Palamas was Orthodox or not, resulting in his victory (Synods of Constantinople of 1341, 1347, 1351). Metochites is fa-mous for his artistic patronage of the Monastery of Saint Saviour in Cho-ra (Kariye Camii), where he retired. The monastery's mosaics and frescoes are among the greatest witnesses to Byzantine aesthetics. Metochites's writings are significant in the Byzantine era and are presented in this vol-ume by some of the principal specialists of his work.
The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261 - c. 1360)
Author: Edmund Fryde
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004474269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004474269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.
Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome
Author: Theodorus (Metochita)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789173468909
Category :
Languages : el
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789173468909
Category :
Languages : el
Pages :
Book Description