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Greece reinvented : transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy

Title
Greece reinvented : transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy / by Han Lamers.
Author
Lamers, Han
Publication
Leiden : Brill, [2015]

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Description
xiv, 396 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
"In Greece Reinvented Han Lamers explores the transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy. Relinquishing their traditional Roman inheritance, the Byzantine intelligentsia in Italy generally portrayed themselves as 'children of the Hellenes'. On the basis of sources in Greek, Latin, and Italian, and at the crossroads of cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Greece Reinvented shows in what ways Greek exiles such as Bessarion, George Trapezuntius, Ianus Lascaris, Michele Marullo, and others redefined what it meant to be Greek in the Italian diaspora. Placing their renewed 'Greekness' in the context of the cultural exchange between Greeks and Latins, Greece Reinvented reveals the cultural dynamics behind the much-studied transfer of Greek learning from Byzantium to the Latin West"--
Series Statement
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; Volume 247
Uniform Title
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 247.
Subject
  • 1268 - 1559
  • Renaissance > Italy
  • Greeks > Migrations > History > To 1500
  • Civilization
  • Hellenism
  • Renaissance
  • Kulturvermittlung
  • Migration
  • Byzantine Empire > History > 1081-1453
  • Byzantine Empire > Intellectual life
  • Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Italy
  • Byzantinisches Reich
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-385) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- A Hellenic alternative : the emergence of Greekness in Byzantium -- Making the best of it : the negotiation of Greekness in Italy -- Freedom and community : the secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion -- The Greek tradition as a combat zone : Hellenocentrism in the work of George Trapezuntius of Crete -- Greekness as cultural common ground : Ianus Lascaris' attempt at Greco-Latin ecumenism -- Greekness without Greece : Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo -- The territorialisation of Hellenism : Giovanni Gemisto's vision of the Greek world -- Conclusion : Greece reinvented.
Call Number
JFE 16-4419
ISBN
  • 9789004297555
  • 9004297553
  • 9789004303799 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015032908
OCLC
927104002
Author
Lamers, Han, author.
Title
Greece reinvented : transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy / by Han Lamers.
Publisher
Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; Volume 247
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 247.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-385) and index.
Chronological Term
1268 - 1559
Research Call Number
JFE 16-4419
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