Greece reinvented
Subtitle: transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy
By: by Han Lamers
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- Volume 247
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789004297555; 9789004303799
Subjects: Renaissance; History; Greeks; Migrations; Intellectual life
Description: "In Greece Reinvented Han Lamers explores the transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy. Relinquishing their traditional Roman inheritance, the Byzantine intelligentsia in Italy generally portrayed themselves as 'children of the Hellenes'. On the basis of sources in Greek, Latin, and Italian, and at the crossroads of cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Greece Reinvented shows in what ways Greek exiles such as Bessarion, George Trapezuntius, Ianus Lascaris, Michele Marullo, and others redefined what it meant to be Greek in the Italian diaspora. Placing their renewed 'Greekness' in the context of the cultural exchange between Greeks and Latins, Greece Reinvented reveals the cultural dynamics behind the much-studied transfer of Greek learning from Byzantium to the Latin West"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A Hellenic alternative : the emergence of Greekness in Byzantium; title: The negotiation of Greekness in Italy; title: Freedom and community : the secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion; title: The Greek tradition as a combat zone : Hellenocentrism in the work of George Trapezuntius of Crete; title: Greekness as cultural common ground : Ianus Lascaris' attempt at Greco-Latin ecumenism; title: Greekness without Greece : Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo; title: The territorialisation of Hellenism : Giovanni Gemisto's vision of the Greek world; title: Conclusion : Greece reinvented.