Greece Reinvented : Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (410 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.247 .
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Hellenic Alternative: The Emergence of Greekness in Byzantium -- Chapter 2 Making the Best of It: The Negotiation of Greekness in Italy -- Chapter 3 Freedom and Community: The Secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion -- Chapter 4 The Greek Tradition as a Combat Zone: Hellenocentrism in the Work of George Trapezuntius of Crete -- Chapter 5 Greekness as Cultural Common Ground: Ianus Lascaris' Attempt at Greco-Latin Ecumenism -- Chapter 6 Greekness without Greece: Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo -- Chapter 7 The Territorialisation of Hellenism: Giovanni Gemisto's Vision of the Greek World -- Conclusion: Greece Reinvented -- Appendices -- 1 Gemisto's Gallery of Greek Heroes -- 2 Gemisto's imaginary Greece -- Bibliography -- Index.
Greece Reinvented is the first book-length discussion of the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy, exploring why and how the Byzantine intelligentsia, displaced to Italy, adopted distinctively Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to a Roman identity.
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Renaissance-Italy-History. Greeks-Migrations-History-To 1500. Byzantine Empire-History-1081-1453. Byzantine Empire-Intellectual life. Italy-Intellectual life-1268-1559.