Never the Twain Shall Meet?: Latins and Greeks Learning from Each Other in Byzantium

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This volume explores the theme of Latin and Greek mutual learning, intellectual and cultural interchange in the final age of Byzantium (1261-1453), challenging received conceptions of East and West as clearly delineated ideological categories. The reception of Thomas Aquinas and Western scholasticism receives emphasis, but also other forms of philosophical and theological frames of reference that have had lasting repercussions. Acknowledgements Contents List of Contributors Foreword Translations from Latin to Greek Reconfiguring East and West in Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Theology George of Trebizond, Thomas Aquinas, and Latin Scholasticism Translatable and Untranslatable Aquinas Bessarion of Nicaea vs. Mark Eugenicus New Evidence on the Manuscript Tradition and on the Latin and Greek Background tο George Scholarius’ In “De Interpretatione” The Two Byzantine Translations of Thomas Aquinas’ De Rationibus Fidei Scholarios’ On Almsgiving, or How to Convert a Scholastic “Quaestio” into a Sermon ἐσέντζια, ὀντότης, οὐσία Hugo Eterianus and his Two Treatises in the Demetrius of Lampe Affair Gregorios Palamas’ Reception of Augustine’s Doctrine of the Original Sin and Nicholas Kabasilas’ Rejection of Aquinas’ Maculism as the Background to Scholarios’ Immaculism Prochoros Cydones’ Translation of Thomas Aquinas’ Quaestiones disputatae de potentia and Quaestio disputata de spiritualibus creaturis Nature as instrumentum Dei Hylomorphism East and West Pletho, Scholarios and Arabic philosophy Selected Bibliography Index