Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy - Peter Adamson

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Preface; Philosophy in Byzantium; 1 The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy; 2 On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian; 3 Don't Picture This: Iconoclasm; 4 Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus; 5 Collectors' Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations; 6 Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos; 7 Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning; 8 Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy; 9 Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium; 10 Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography; 11 Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle; 12 Wiser than Men: Gender in Byzantium; 13 Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium; 14 Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts; 15 Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival; 16 People of the South: Byzantium and Islam; 17 Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance; 18 Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm; 19 United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium; 20 Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon; 21 Istanbul (not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox Tradition; The Italian Renaissance; 22 Old News: Introduction to the Renaissance; 23 Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy; 24 Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism; 25 Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla; 26 Difficult to be Good: Humanist Ethics; 27 Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic philosophy; 28 We Built This City: Christine de Pizan; 29 More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists; 30 All About Eve: the Defense of Women; 31 I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism; 32 Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino; 33 True Romance: Theories of Love; 34 As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy; 35 The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola; 36 What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature; 37 Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola; 38 The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism; 39 No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli; 40 Sense of Humors: Machiavelli on Republicanism; 41 The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography; 42 No Place Like Home: Renaissance Utopias; 43 Greed is Good: Renaissance Economics; 44 Town and Gown: Italian Universities; 45 I'd Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy; 46 Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect; 47 There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method; 48 The Measure of All Things: Mathematics and Art; 49 Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine; 50 Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano; 51 Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature; 52 The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology; 53 Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno; 54 The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance