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Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church an

In late antiquity Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by Hellenism a

In late antiquity, Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses represented by Hellenism and Christianity. Focusing on The

Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to philosophy

This book advances a revisionist approach towards the clash between humanism and Christian Orthodoxy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that le

The first comprehensive survey of Byzantine intellectual endeavors, exploring areas from religion and rhetoric to politics and medicine. Essential for

Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world – novels – since late