Preface
Philosophy in Byzantium
1. The Empire Strikes Back: Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
2. On the Eastern Front: Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
3. Don't Picture This: Iconoclasm
4. Behind Enemy Lines: John of Damascus
5. Collectors' Items: Photius and Byzantine Compilations
6. Consul of the Philosophers: Michael Psellos
7. Hooked on Classics: Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning
8. Purple Prose: Byzantine Political Philosophy
9. Elements of Style: Rhetoric in Byzantium
10. Past Masters: Byzantine Historiography
11. Queen of the Sciences: Anna Komnene and her Circle
12. Wiser than Men: Gender in Byzantium
13. Just Measures: Law, Money, and War in Byzantium
14. Made by Hand: Byzantine Manuscripts
15. Georgia on My Mind: Petritsi and the Proclus Revival
16. People of the South: Byzantium and Islam
17. Do the Math: Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance
18. Through His Works You Shall Know Him: Palamas and Hesychasm
19. United We Fall: Latin Philosophy in Byzantium
20. Platonic Love: Gemistos Plethon
21. Istanbul (not Constantinople): the Later Orthodox Tradition
The Italian Renaissance
22. Old News: Introduction to the Renaissance
23. Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Scholars in Italy
24. Republic of Letters: Italian Humanism
25. Literary Criticism: Lorenzo Valla
26. Difficult to be Good: Humanist Ethics
27. Chance Encounters: Reviving Hellenistic philosophy
28. We Built This City: Christine de Pizan
29. More Rare Than the Phoenix: Italian Women Humanists
30. All About Eve: the Defense of Women
31. I'd Like to Thank the Academy: Florentine Platonism
32. Footnotes to Plato: Marsilio Ficino
33. True Romance: Theories of Love
34. As Far as East from West: Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy
35. The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola
36. What a Piece of Work is Man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature
37. Bonfire of the Vanities: Savonarola
38. The Sweet Restraints of Liberty: Republicanism and Civic Humanism
39. No More Mr Nice Guy: Machiavelli
40. Sense of Humors: Machiavelli on Republicanism
41. The Teacher of Our Actions: Renaissance Historiography
42. No Place Like Home: Renaissance Utopias
43. Greed is Good: Renaissance Economics
44. Town and Gown: Italian Universities
45. I'd Like to Thank the Lyceum: Aristotle in Renaissance Italy
46. Of Two Minds: Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
47. There and Back Again: Zabarella on Scientific Method
48. The Measure of All Things: Mathematics and Art
49. Just What the Doctor Ordered: Renaissance Medicine
50. Man of Discoveries: Girolamo Cardano
51. Spirits in the Material World: Telesio and Campanella on Nature
52. The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Renaissance Magic and Astrology
53. Boundless Enthusiasm: Giordano Bruno
54. The Harder They Fall: Galileo and the Renaissance