Renaissance encounters
Subtitle: Greek East and Latin West
By: Edited by Marina S. Brownlee, Dimitri H. Gondicas
Series: Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts -- volume 8
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9789004235915
Subjects: Renaissance; Culture diffusion; Relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hellenic studies at Princeton : thirtieth anniversary / Dimitri Gondicas; title: The perils of periodization / Marina S. Brownlee; title: Renaissance encounters : preface / Peter Brown; title: George Gemistos Plethon and the West : Greek emigres, Latin scholasticism, and Renaissance humanism / John Monfasani; title: Renaissance encounters : Byzantium meets the West at the Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-9 / Judith Herrin and Stuart M. McManus; title: Byzantine and Italian political thought concerning the rise of cities before the Renaissance / Teresa Shawcross; title: The meeting of East and West in medieval monasticism in Sicily and south Italy / Giles Constable; title: Betwixt or beyond? : the Salento in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Linda Safran; title: Between East and West : the symbolism of space in the art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) / Maria Evangelatou; title: Linguistic encounters : the presence of spoken Greek in sixteenth-century Venice / Marc D. Lauxtermann; title: Boccaccio and the Greek world of his time : a missing link in the "true story of the novel"? / Roderick Beaton; title: Byzantine romances : eastern or western? / Elizabeth Jeffreys; title: The Mediterranean melting pot : monetary crosscurrents of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries / Alan M. Stahl; title: Encounters in the realm of dress : attitudes towards western styles in the Greek East / Maria G. Parani.