Greece Reinvented: Transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance ItalyBRILL, 16.11.2015 - 412 Seiten Greece Reinvented discusses the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism as the cultural elite of Byzantium, displaced to Italy, constructed it. It explores why and how Byzantine migrants such as Cardinal Bessarion, Ianus Lascaris, and Giovanni Gemisto adopted Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to the heirship of ancient Rome. In Greece Reinvented, Han Lamers shows that being Greek in the diaspora was both blessing and burden, and explores how these migrants’ newfound ‘Greekness’ enabled them to create distinctive positions for themselves while promoting group cohesion. These Greek personas reflected Latin understandings of who the Greeks ‘really’ were but sometimes also undermined Western paradigms. Greece Reinvented reveals some of the cultural tensions that bubble under the surface of the much-studied transmission of Greek learning from Byzantium to Italy. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
The Emergence of Greekness in Byzantium | 28 |
The Negotiation of Greekness
in Italy | 63 |
The Secular Greekness
of Cardinal Bessarion | 92 |
Hellenocentrism in the Work of George
Trapezuntius of Crete | 133 |
Ianus
Lascaris Attempt at GrecoLatin Ecumenism | 166 |
Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo | 200 |
Giovanni Gemistos Vision of the Greek World | 233 |
Greece Reinvented | 270 |
Appendices | 283 |
Bibliography | 314 |
| 386 | |
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