..., George Gemistos or (Greek) George Gemistos Plethon ( c. 1360–1452 ), Byzantine Neoplatonic philosopher. The first 50 years of his long life are not well documented. His detractor Gennadios II Scholarios , who is a suspect but possibly accurate source, says that Pletho studied with a Jew called Elisha at the ‘barbarian court’ (presumably the Ottoman court at Edirne or the old capital at Bursa), where he was tainted by Zoroastrianism . He taught in Constantinople for several years, but in 1410 he was exiled to Mistra by the Emperor Manuel II...
..., George Gemistos ( 1355/60–1452/4 ) was a Byzantine philosopher who taught in Mistra, in the Peloponnese, including among his students the future Cardinal Bessarion . Accompanying the Greek delegation to the Council of Ferrara - Florence from 1438 to 1439 , he lectured to Italian humanists , arguing that Plato was superior to Aristotle , in an effort to renew interest in Platonism among Western scholars. His major work, The Laws , was a Greek treatise modelled on Plato's dialogue of the same name, in which he promoted Neoplatonic paganism as...
(c.1360–1452),Byzantine Neoplatonic philosopher. The first 50 years of his long life are not well documented. His detractor Gennadios II Scholarios, who is a suspect but possibly accurate source, ...
(c.1423–after 1461) Historian; only a few details of his life are known.In 1447 he was a pupil of Georgius Gemistus Pletho at Mistra. He wrote a history about the ...
Metropolitan of Ephesus (1437–45), anti-Latin theologian, and saint; born Constantinople 1394?, died Constantinople 23 June 1445 (J. Gill, BZ 52 [1959] 31); feastday 19 Jan.Son of the deacon George ...
(Ξειλα̑ς), also Prinkips Cheilas, a family of Peloponnesian origin, known from the 13th–15th C. The Cheilades produced several ecclesiastical leaders and intellectuals: Theodosios Prinkips Cheilas ...
(1349–1460). As a result of the Fourth Crusade, the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnesos (or Morea), and the establishment of the principality of Achaia, the Byz. lost all control over ...
The Greco-Roman heritage was a powerful tradition, which, together with that of the Bible, influenced Byz. culture. From antiquity Byz. inherited the Greek Language, the system of education, Roman ...
(c.1420–1474×86) Copyist of MSS, teacher, and writer.He studied with John Argyropoulos and taught at the Petra monastery in Constantinople. After Turkish imprisonment in 1453, he lived in Crete, ...
(1391–1452) Italian merchant, diplomat, and humanist.During his travels to Italy, Greece, the Mediterranean islands, and Asia Minor, he copied almost 1,000 ancient inscriptions, made drawings of ...
The Platonic Academy, also known as the Florentine or, more rarely, the Careggian Academy, has always been linked to the figure of Marsilio Ficino. Indeed, it has become an attractive ...
(1395–1472/3) Humanist teacher and translator.A Greek native, he converted to Catholicism in Italy, where he taught Greek. Famed for his Rhetoricum and Isagoge dialectica as well as for translating ...
(c.1400/5–c.1472),Greek scholar, theologian, and patriarch, born in Constantinople. By 1438 he had been appointed teacher of theology (διδάσκαλος) at Hagia Sophia, senator (σύγκλητος), and one of the ...
From the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, knowledge of Greek in the West was patchy, except in the isolated Greek communities of southern Italy and Sicily, and for centuries western ...
Philosophy was taught and studied in the Greek-speaking world throughout the MA.The relative continuity with ancient Greek literary culture is a distinguishing feature of Byzantine literary culture. ...
(1389–1464)Florentine banker, the first member of the Medici family to rule Florence. In Florence the struggle for power between rival patrician families was intense and Cosimo was expelled from the ...
(c.1415–1475/6),Greek scholar in Italy. Gaza was born in Thessaloniki, and may have lived there in the first half of his life, of which little is known. The city surrendered ...
(1399/1400–1472)Born at Trebizond of a modest family, the young Bessarion was noticed by Metropolitan Dositheus, who took him with him to Constantinople in c.1415. There he studied Rhetoric and ...
It is a commonplace that the Greek philosophers had no economic theory. Three reasons are advanced for this absence: (1) the merely embryonic existence of the relevant institutions, esp. the ...
(1438–45)Unsuccessful reunion council that met to re-establish communion between the western and eastern churches. Although a decree of union was signed (Laetentur caeli) and agreement reached on the ...
