Renaissance Encounters

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

332 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

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).

Readership

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.

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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