Never the Twain shall meet? Latins and Greeks learning from each other in Byzantium

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This volume of papers, like the conference, was conceived as a means of shedding light on the mutuality of theological and philosophical methods and interests in the two halves of the former Roman Empire in its final period, to emphasize the lively intellectual engagement between “Latins” and “Greeks” of the Palaeologan period as well as the long-lasting repercussions of the dialogue between them. Historically speaking, the volume concentrates primarily on the period from the reconquest of Constantinople in 1261 by Michael VIII Palaiologos up to the aftermath of the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, a period covering cataclysmic political, philosophical and theological developments, including the ill-fated but tremendously important attempt at ecclesial union at the Council of Florence-Ferrara (1437–39) and the stream of Greek emigrés to the West once their capital city had fallen; it was a period that saw the end of the Middle Ages and a new world discovered in 1492, transforming all previous conceptions of East and West. A reader equipped only with general knowledge of the Fourth Crusade of 1204, which resulted in the subjugation of Constantinople under Frankish power for six decades, and formed by perceptions of some fundamental dichotomy between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, cannot but be astonished to discover not only translations of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas into Greek at this time along with an appropriation of Western scholastic ideas and methods in Constantinople but also an impressive knowledge of Latin theology and philosophy among Byzantine intellectuals throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. [9783110561074 - Never the Twain Shall Meet] Frontmatter.pdf (p.1-4)......Page 1 acknowledgements-2017.pdf (p.5-6)......Page 5 contents-2017.pdf (p.7-8)......Page 7 list-of-contributors-2017.pdf (p.9-12)......Page 9 searby2017.pdf (p.13-20)......Page 13 tinnefeld2017.pdf (p.21-32)......Page 21 plested2017.pdf (p.33-58)......Page 33 monfasani2017.pdf (p.59-74)......Page 59 levy2017.pdf (p.75-88)......Page 75 athanasopoulos2017.pdf (p.89-104)......Page 89 balcoyiannopoulou2017.pdf (p.105-126)......Page 105 blanchet2017.pdf (p.127-140)......Page 127 demetracopoulos2017.pdf (p.141-190)......Page 141 golitsis2017.pdf (p.191-208)......Page 191 jensen2017.pdf (p.209-218)......Page 209 kappes2017.pdf (p.219-270)......Page 219 konstantinou-rizos2017.pdf (p.271-286)......Page 271 mariev2017.pdf (p.287-302)......Page 287 pino2017.pdf (p.303-320)......Page 303 steiris2017.pdf (p.321-346)......Page 321 selected-bibliography-2017.pdf (p.347-366)......Page 347 index-2017.pdf (p.367-370)......Page 367