The beginnings and foundation of Byzantine studies
Subtitle: a survey with a bibliographical appendix
By: Alexios G.C. Savvides
Publisher: Hêrodotos
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Arhènes
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9789604852284
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Study and teaching; Bibliography; History
Description: "The present monograph attempts a delineation of the development of Byzantine historical and philological studies, particularly in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, when the real foundations of the discipline of byzantinology were laid, mainly in Germany and France. In the 16th century scholars like Hieronymo Wolff, David Hoeschel, Wilhelm Holzmann (Xylander), Dennis Petau (Petavius), Johannes van Meursius, Nicholas Alemannus and others, established the initial firm foundations, to be ensued, in the 17th century, by Philippe Labbe, Leo Allatius, Martin Kraus (Martinus Crusius), Jean-Albert Fabricius, Charles du Fresne Du Cange (Ducangius), Jean Mabillon, Bernard de Montfaucon, Anselmo Banduri, Michel Le Quien, and many others. This book also treats the "vicissitudes" suffered by byzantinology in the 18th century despite the presence of important byzantinists in that era. It also refers to the renovated attempts aiming at stabler foundations in the course of the 19th century and especially through the "Herculean" task by Jacques-Paul Migne and his editions of the two Patrologies (Greek and Latin), as well as through pioneer researches and critical editions on the part of great scholars in several European countries. The sequel to the present essay will focus to a significant extent, on the development of byzantinology in Greece from the early 20th century onwards."--
Notes: "Édition originale."--Title page verso.

"Originally published as part one of an extended review essay entitled "The birth and development of Byzantine studies in the West", in Mésogeios 9-10 (Paris, Hérodotos, 200), p. 127-180, this short monograph is somewhat expanded and bibliographically updared and offers an overall survey and description of the discipline up till the end of the nineteenth century."--Page 46.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English; summaries in French and Greek.
Table of contents: title: References (bibliography-abbreviations); title: Foreword; title: Introductory remarks; title: Chapter I. Heralding the sixteenth century: from the Greek scholars of the diaspora to Hieronymus Wolff and his successors; title: Chapter II. The establishment of studia byzantina in seventeenth-century France. A period of efflorescence; title: Chapter III. Byzantium's "trials and tribulations" in the eighteenth-century "Age of Reason": the "spell" of Gibbon and the beginnings of the nineteenth-century recovery in Europe; title: Chapter IV. The nineteenth-century European scholars: byzantinology in the path of development; title: Summary in French; title: Summary in Greek; title: Bibliographical appendix; title: Bibliographical addendum; title: A partial list of mentioned.