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A number of Greek scholars contributed to the establishment of this renaissance also in Western Europe. Demetrios Pepagomenos (1200–1300), zoologist, botanologist and pharmacist George Akropolites (1220–1282), astronomer
Pages in category "Scholars of Byzantine history" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Byzantine Italy was made up of those parts of the Italian peninsula under the control of the Byzantine empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476). The last Byzantine outpost in Italy, Bari was lost in 1071. Chronologically, it refers to: Praetorian prefecture of Italy (540/554–584) Exarchate of Ravenna (584–751) Theme of Sicily ...
The opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies in the Aula of the University of Sofia, 9 November 1934. Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Portrait of Mercati published by Follieri (1964), facing p.5. Silvio Giuseppe Mercati (born Giuseppe Mercati; 16 September 1877 – 16 October 1963) was an Italian Byzantinist, recognized as the first Italian classical scholar who specialized in Byzantine studies and the first Professor of Byzantine studies in the Italian university system.
Guarino Veronese or Guarino da Verona (1374 – 14 December 1460) was an Italian classical scholar, humanist, and translator of ancient Greek texts during the Renaissance. [1] In the republics of Florence and Venice he studied under Manuel Chrysoloras ( c. 1350–1415), renowned professor of Greek and ambassador of the Byzantine emperor Manuel ...
Engraving of Manuel Chrysoloras (1862) Chrysoloras was born in Constantinople, at the time capital of the Byzantine Empire, to a distinguished Greek Orthodox family. In 1390, he led an embassy sent to the Republic of Venice by the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos to ask the aid of the Christian princes of Medieval Europe against the invasions of the Byzantine Empire by the Muslim ...
List of Byzantine scholars This page was last edited on 27 March 2023, at 20:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...