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Author | : Han Lamers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004303790 |
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Greece Reinvented discusses the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism as the cultural elite of Byzantium, displaced to Italy, constructed it. It explores why and how Byzantine migrants such as Cardinal Bessarion, Ianus Lascaris, and Giovanni Gemisto adopted Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to the heirship of ancient Rome. In Greece Reinvented, Han Lamers shows that being Greek in the diaspora was both blessing and burden, and explores how these migrants’ newfound ‘Greekness’ enabled them to create distinctive positions for themselves while promoting group cohesion. These Greek personas reflected Latin understandings of who the Greeks ‘really’ were but sometimes also undermined Western paradigms. Greece Reinvented reveals some of the cultural tensions that bubble under the surface of the much-studied transmission of Greek learning from Byzantium to Italy.
Author | : Raf Van Rooy |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3961102104 |
Download Greece’s labyrinth of language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance. Inspired by the humanist battle cry “To the sources!” scholars took a detailed look at the Greek source texts in the original language and its different dialects. In so doing, they saw themselves confronted with major linguistic questions: Is there any order in this immense diversity? Can the Ancient Greek dialects be classified into larger groups? Is there a hierarchy among the dialects? Which dialect is the oldest? Where should problematic varieties such as Homeric and Biblical Greek be placed? How are the differences between the Greek dialects to be described, charted, and explained? What is the connection between the diversity of the Greek tongue and the Greek homeland? And, last but not least, are Greek dialects similar to the dialects of the vernacular tongues? Why (not)? This book discusses and analyzes the often surprising and sometimes contradictory early modern answers to these questions.
Author | : Georgios Arabatzis |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1443892823 |
Download The Problem of Modern Greek Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: What does it actually mean to be a Greek today? What is Modern Greece, apart from and beyond the bulk of information that one would find in an encyclopaedia and the established stereotypes? This volume delves into the timely nature of these questions and provides answers not by referring to often-cited classical Antiquity, nor by treating Greece as merely and exclusively a modern nation-state. Rather, it approaches the subject in a kaleidoscopic way, by tracing the line from the Byzantine Empire to Modern Greek culture, society, philosophy, literature and politics. In presenting the diverse and certainly non-dominant approaches of a multitude of Greek scholars, it provides new insights into a diachronic problem, and will encourage new arguments and counterarguments. Despite commonly held views among Greek intelligentsia or the worldwide community, Modern Greek identity remains an open question – and wound.
Author | : Rosa Maria Piccione |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110577089 |
Download Greeks, Books and Libraries in Renaissance Venice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language book production at a time when printed books were already at a rather advanced stage of development with regards to requests, purchases and exchanges of books; copying and borrowing practices; relations among intellectuals and with institutions, and much more. Based on the investigation into selected institutional and private libraries – in particular the book collection of Gabriel Severos, guide of the Greek Confraternity in Venice – the authors present new pertinent evidence from Renaissance books and documents, discuss methodological questions, and propose innovative research perspectives for a sociocultural approach to book histories.
Author | : Adrian Kuzminski |
Publisher | : Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9780739125076 |
Download Pyrrhonism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Adrian Kuzminski argues that Pyrrhonism, an ancient Greek philosophy, can best be understood as a Western form of Buddhism. Not only is its founder, Pyrrho, reported to have traveled to India and been influenced by contacts with Indian sages, but a close comparison of ancient Buddhist and Pyrrhonian texts suggests a common philosophical practice, seeking liberation through suspension of judgment with regard to beliefs about non-evident things.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004430571 |
Download History of Ancient Greek Scholarship Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of “ancient scholarship” from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been updated and rethought.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004355324 |
Download Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inspired by Jill Kraye’s many contributions to European intellectual history, this volume presents a diverse collection of studies in Renaissance philosophy and humanism by leading experts in the field.
Author | : Han Lamers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 900454898X |
Download The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta. On Longing, Fortune, and Displacement Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome. A Greek by birth, Manilius Cabacius Rallus (c. 1447–c. 1523) spent most of his life far from his motherland, unable to return. Through his poems, composed in a range of metres and genres, Rallus engaged with some major events and personalities of his time, including Angelo Poliziano, Ianus Lascaris, and Pope Leo X. His poems also reflect on timeless human experiences such as helplessness in the face of fortune and nostalgia for what is lost. Han Lamers edited the Latin text of Rallus’ poems (most of them printed for the last time in 1520) and added annotations and an English prose translation.
Author | : Francesco M. Bongiovanni |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137009063 |
Download The Decline and Fall of Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Moving from the birth of Europe to the current crisis, this irreverent and topical book questions the relevance of the European Union today, addressing issues ranging from immigration and Turkish integration to the sovereign debt crisis, and whether this will prove to be merely the beginning of intractable economic challenges.
Author | : Donald Bloxham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192602330 |
Download Why History? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes that their historical investigations have served. Whether considering Herodotus, medieval religious exegesis, or twentieth-century cultural history, at the core of this work is the way that the present has been conceived to relate to the past. Alongside many changes in technique and philosophy, Donald Bloxham's book reveals striking long-term continuities in justifications for the discipline.