Byzantine Humanism The First Phase

Contents
Preface
'Ihmslators' note
Introduction
I The Break in Hellenic Culture in the West
II The Hypothesis of a Link through Syria and the Arabs
Ill The Fate of Secular Hellenism in Byzantium during the first three centuries of the Empire
IV The Dark Ages: Break or continuity?
V Intellectual Ferment, Curiosity and Technical Progress: The first great figures
VI Leo the Philosopher (or Mathematician) and his Times
VII Photios and Classicism
VIII Arcthas of Patras
IX The Schools from Bardas to Constantine Porphyrogcnnetos
X The Encyclopedism of the Tenth Century
Conclusion
Index
Notable Greek Terms
List of Manuscripts Cited