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Author Lamers, Han, author.

Title Greece reinvented : transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy / by Han Lamers.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; Volume 247
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 247. 0920-8607
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "In Greece Reinvented Han Lamers explores the transformations of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy. Relinquishing their traditional Roman inheritance, the Byzantine intelligentsia in Italy generally portrayed themselves as 'children of the Hellenes'. On the basis of sources in Greek, Latin, and Italian, and at the crossroads of cultural, literary, and intellectual history, Greece Reinvented shows in what ways Greek exiles such as Bessarion, George Trapezuntius, Ianus Lascaris, Michele Marullo, and others redefined what it meant to be Greek in the Italian diaspora. Placing their renewed 'Greekness' in the context of the cultural exchange between Greeks and Latins, Greece Reinvented reveals the cultural dynamics behind the much-studied transfer of Greek learning from Byzantium to the Latin West"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- A Hellenic alternative : the emergence of Greekness in Byzantium -- The negotiation of Greekness in Italy -- Freedom and community : the secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion -- The Greek tradition as a combat zone : Hellenocentrism in the work of George Trapezuntius of Crete -- Greekness as cultural common ground : Ianus Lascaris' attempt at Greco-Latin ecumenism -- Greekness without Greece : Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo -- The territorialisation of Hellenism : Giovanni Gemisto's vision of the Greek world -- Conclusion : Greece reinvented.
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Subject Renaissance -- Italy.
Renaissance.
Italy.
Greeks -- Migrations -- History -- To 1500.
Greeks.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1081-1453.
Byzantine Empire.
Chronological Term 1081-1453
Subject Byzantine Empire -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Chronological Term 1268-1559
To 1559
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lamers, Han. Greece reinvented 9789004297555 (DLC) 2015032908 (OCoLC)927104002
ISBN 9789004303799 (electronic book)
9004303790 (electronic book)
9789004297555
9004297553