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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?
7 years, 4 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.
7 years, 5 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”.
7 years, 5 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.
7 years, 5 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.
7 years, 6 months ago
HoP 320 - People of the South - Byzantium and Islam
Episode 83
Intellectual exchange between Christians and Muslims, and the later flowering of Syriac literature including the philosopher Bar Hebraeus.
7 years, 6 months ago
HoP 319 - Georgia on My Mind - Petritsi and the Proclus Revival
Episode 82
The Neoplatonist Proclus gets mixed reviews from Christians, as Nicholas of Methone refutes him but the Georgian philosopher Ioane Petritsi helps to …
7 years, 7 months ago
HoP 318 - Oliver Primavesi on Greek Manuscripts
Episode 81
Peter's Munich colleague Oliver Primavesi tells us how Greek manuscripts are used to establish the text of authors like Aristotle.
7 years, 7 months ago
HoP 317 - Made by Hand - Byzantine Manuscripts
Episode 80
Without handwritten copies produced by Byzantine scribes, we would know almost nothing about ancient philosophy. How and why were they made?
7 years, 8 months ago
HoP 316 - Just Measures - Law, Money, and War in Byzantium
Episode 79
Legal and economic thought in Byzantium: the sources of the law’s authority, the relation of church and civil law, just price, and just war.
7 years, 8 months ago