Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics
Biographical note
Charles Barber is a Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on the intellectual history of the icon, notably Figure and Likeness (Princeton, 2002) and Contesting the Logic of Painting (Brill, 2007).
David Jenkins is the Byzantine Studies Librarian at the University of Notre Dame.
David Jenkins is the Byzantine Studies Librarian at the University of Notre Dame.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, in Aristotelianism in the Middle Ages, in the history of Byzantium, in aesthetics, ethics, and in medieval Greek philosophy in general.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Classical Scholarschip in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
The Literary, Cultural and Political Context for the Twelfth-Century Commentary on the Nicomacheau Ethics
Aritotelian Ethics in Byzantium
Neoplatonic Source-Material in Eustratios of Nicaea's Commentary on Book VI of the Nicomacheau Ethics
Eustratios of Nicaea's 'Definition of being' Revisited
Eustratios of Nicaea on the Separation of Art and Theology
The Anonymous Commentary on Nicomacheau Ethics VII: Language, Style and Implications
Michael of Ephesus on the Empirical Man, the Scientist and the Educated Man (In Ethica Nicomachea X and In de Partibus Animalium I)
Some Observations on Michael of Ephesus' Comments on Nicomacheau Ethics X
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Classical Scholarschip in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
The Literary, Cultural and Political Context for the Twelfth-Century Commentary on the Nicomacheau Ethics
Aritotelian Ethics in Byzantium
Neoplatonic Source-Material in Eustratios of Nicaea's Commentary on Book VI of the Nicomacheau Ethics
Eustratios of Nicaea's 'Definition of being' Revisited
Eustratios of Nicaea on the Separation of Art and Theology
The Anonymous Commentary on Nicomacheau Ethics VII: Language, Style and Implications
Michael of Ephesus on the Empirical Man, the Scientist and the Educated Man (In Ethica Nicomachea X and In de Partibus Animalium I)
Some Observations on Michael of Ephesus' Comments on Nicomacheau Ethics X
Bibliography
Index
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