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HoP 330 - Republic of Letters - Italian Humanism
Episode 93
Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni combine eloquence with philosophy, taking as their model the refined language and republican ideals found in Cic…
6 years, 7 months ago
HoP 329 - Greeks Bearing Gifts - Byzantine Scholars in Italy
Episode 92
Bessarion and George Trapenzuntius, rival scholars from the Greek east who helped inspire the Italian Renaissance.
6 years, 8 months ago
HoP 328 - Old News - Introduction to the Italian Renaissance
Episode 91
A first look at the themes and figures of philosophy in the Italian Renaissance.
6 years, 8 months ago
HoP 327 - Michele Trizio on Byzantine and Latin Medieval Philosophy
Episode 90
The series on Byzantium concludes as Michele Trizio discusses the mutual influence of Byzantium and Latin Christendom.
6 years, 9 months ago
HoP 326 - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - the Later Orthodox Tradition
Episode 89
When the Byzantine empire ended in 1453, philosophy in Greek did not end with it. In this episode we bring the story up to the 20th century.
6 years, 9 months ago
HoP 325 - Platonic Love - Gemistos Plethon
Episode 88
Was Gemistos Plethon, the last great thinker of the Byzantine tradition, a secret pagan or just a Christian with an unusual enthusiasm for Platonism?
6 years, 10 months ago
HoP 324 - United We Fall - Latin Philosophy in Byzantium
Episode 87
Thomas Aquinas finds avid readers among Byzantines at the twilight of empire, and is used by both sides of the Hesychast controversy.
6 years, 10 months ago
HoP 323 - Through His Works You Shall Know Him - Palamas and Hesychasm
Episode 86
Gregory Palamas and the controversy over his teaching that we can go beyond human reason by grasping God through his activities or “energies”.
6 years, 11 months ago
HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
Episode 85
Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.
6 years, 11 months ago
HoP 321 - Judith Herrin on Byzantium and Islam
Episode 84
Historian Judith Herrin joins us to talk about competition and mutual influence between Islam and Byzantium.
6 years, 11 months ago