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Author:   Ioannis Polemis
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
ISBN:  

9780755651429

ISBN 10:   0755651421
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   28 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: LIFE AND WORK AT THE END OF EMPIRE PART I: METOCHITES’ REPRESENTATIONS OF HIMSELF AND OTHERS 1. Metochites on Himself: Inner Ambiguity 2. Metochites on Others: Mirror Images of Himself 3. Coda—Disposing of Oneself: A New Way of Being? PART II. THE QUEST FOR NOVELTY: INNOVATION VERSUS TRADITION IN METOCHITES’ REPRESENTATIONS 4. Not Everything Old Is to Be Revered 5. Oration 6, for Gregory of Nazianzus: A Response to Men Like Choumnos? 6. Coda—Metochites on Rhetoric: Veiled Criticism of Late Byzantium Discursive Culture PART III: VITA CONTEMPLATIVA VERSUS VITA ACTIVA: AN AMBIGUOUS RELATIONSHIP AND THE INNER AMBIGUITIES OF METOCHITES’ SELF-IMAGE AS AN INTELLECTUAL 7. ‘The Greeks Ask for Wisdom’: Quest for a Humanistic Monastery 8. Oration 11, Byzantios: The Secular Body of the City and a Secular World Contemplated 9. Coda—Nature and Being: Elusive Concepts Conclusion: Metochites, a Philosopher of His Time Appendix: Works by Theodore Metochites Bibliography

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This is the first comprehensive study on Theodore Metochites’ self-representation, authored by the world’s most experienced scholar with Metochites’ work and thought. It plugs an important gap in current scholarship by casting new light on Metochites’ multifaceted image of himself and the way it is transformed or adjusted to meet the needs of his audience on different occasions. This study also offers a fresh understanding of the political, intellectual and social climate in Constantinople in the 13th and 14th c., and it is a significant contribution to the field of the reception of the classical tradition in late Byzantium. * Sophia Xenofontos, Dr, University of Glasgow, UK *

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Ioannis Polemis is Professor of Byzantine Literature at Athens University, Greece. He is the author of Theophanes of Nicea: His Life and Works (1996), and numerous editions of the writing of Metochites. His edition of Michael Psellos’ funeral orations was published in 2014.

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