Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike

by: Pontani, F.

Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike
Edited by: Filippomaria Pontani
Volume 164 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

About this book
Byzantine Thessaloniki has often been considered in its relationship with Constantinople, as a deuteragonist vis-à-vis the capital. However, from the 11th through the 15th century the symproteuousa has often played an important role in terms of the study, preservation and circulation of learning.

The present volume collects 11 papers originating in a conference held at Thessaloniki's Kentro Istorias in May 2022. Some of them offer new elements and fresh discoveries on single erudites and their work, from Michael Mitylenaios to John Pediasimos, from Demetrios Triklinios to Thomas Magister, from Matthew Blastares to Manuel Boullotes. Hagiography, schedography, lexicography, philology on ancient Greek texts, and even canonical law, are among the genres practised by Thessalonian scholars over the centuries. Other papers offer thoughts on Eustathios' didactic aims, bird's-eye views of the city's intellectual milieux in the early Palaeologan era, or of the learned circles in Manuel II's entourage.

The book acknowledges the "highs" and the "lows" in the cultural development of medieval Thessaloniki, and brings together essential elements towards an assessment of the city's role in the history of education and learning.

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Ἤσουνα, σβεῖς, ξαναγεννιέσαι: Paideia in Thessalonike Across the Centuries

Filippomaria Pontani 1
Michael Mitylenaios, Metropolitan of Thessalonike (11th c.), and His Unknown Hagiographical Work [BHG 789b]

Ilias Nesseris 7
Eustathios? Account of the Capture of Thessalonike by the Normans as Instruction in Political Education (paideia)

Vassilis Sarris 31
Between Thessalonike and Constantinople: The Intellectual Life of Thessalonike in the Epistolography of the Palaeologan Era

Ilias Taxidis 51
The Hagiology of Thessalonike in the Schedographic Production of John Pediasimos

Dimosthenis Stratigopoulos 61
The Schedographers of Thessalonike in the Late Byzantine Period: The Example of Demetrios (?) Staphidakes

Maria Tziatzi 71
Written Culture and Intellectual Circles during the Palaeologan Age: Once more on Demetrios Triklinios and His Friends

Daniele Daniele Bianconi 87
“ὀνομάτων ἀττικῶν ἐκλογὴ οἷς οἱ δοκιμώτατοι χρῶνται τῶν παλαιῶν καί τινες αὐτῶν παρασημειώσεις καὶ διαφοραὶ πρὸς ἄλληλα κυροῦ Θωμᾶ τοῦ μαγίστρου”: Preliminary Remarks
109
Glosses and Scholia signo lunae praeposito to Pindar?s Odes in the Ms. Athos Lavrae K A 52

Francesco G. Giannachi 119
Eruditi Thessalonicenses in the Entourage of Manuel II Palaiologos: Education and Learning in the Second City of the Empire — Research Data and Desiderata

Demetrios C. Agoritsas 141
The Synopsis of the Kanonikon of John the Faster by Matthew Blastares: An Unconventional “Reading” from the Byzantine Periphery

Theodoros X. Giagkou 167
Collecting Books in Thessalonike: Manuel Tarchaneiotes Boullotes from Greece to Italy

Paola C. La Barbera 179
List of Contributors
205
Index Librorum Manu Scriptorum
207
General Index
211
Index Locorum
217

Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike

by: Pontani, F.

• ISBN-13: 9783111421476 / 978-3-11-142147-6
• ISBN-03: 3111421473
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024