page_title: Greek scholars in the Renaissance
hierarchical_section_title: Greek scholars in the Renaissance
caption_attribution_description: English: An original early 15th century manuscript in the hand of Georgios Gemistos Plethon, the famous secular philosopher and mystic who inspired the founding of the Florentine Platonic Academy.
context_page_description: The migration waves of Byzantine scholars and émigrés in the period following the Crusader sacking of Constantinople in 1204 and the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, is considered by many scholars key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies that led to the development of the Renaissance humanism and science. These émigrés brought to Western Europe the relatively well-preserved remnants and accumulated knowledge of their own civilization, which had mostly not survived the Early Middle Ages in the West. They brought to Western Europe the far greater preserved and accumulated knowledge of their own civilization. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: "Many modern scholars also agree that the exodus of Greeks to Italy as a result of this event marked the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance".
context_section_description: The migration waves of Byzantine scholars and émigrés in the period following the Crusader sacking of Constantinople in 1204 and the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, is considered by many scholars key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies that led to the development of the Renaissance humanism and science. These émigrés brought to Western Europe the relatively well-preserved remnants and accumulated knowledge of their own (Greek) civilization, which had mostly not survived the Early Middle Ages in the West. They brought to Western Europe the far greater preserved and accumulated knowledge of their own (Greek) civilization. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: "Many modern scholars also agree that the exodus of Greeks to Italy as a result of this event marked the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance".
caption: One of Georgius Gemistus (Plethon)'s manuscripts, in Greek, written in the early 15th century.
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