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Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism

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Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos' scholarly and scribal activity by adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological an...

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Main Author: Orlandi, Luigi (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures 32
Subjects:
Literature & literary studies
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
Regional studies
European history
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Social & cultural history
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
Ethics & moral philosophy
Manuscript collections
Late Byzantine émigrés
Greek handwriting
Renaissance
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Summary:Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos' scholarly and scribal activity by adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological and paleographic data, in order to shed light on his role at the time of the transfer of Greek cultural heritage to Italy and, hence, throughout Europe.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (623 p.)
ISBN:9783111203447
9783111203331
Access:Open Access

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