THE BEGINNINGS AND FOUNDATION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES: a survey with a bibliographical appendix

Athens, 2018. In English with French and Greek summaries. Soft cover, 24 cm, 268 pp. ISBN: 9789604852284.

... attempts a delineation of the development of Byzantine historical and philological studies, particularly in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, when the real foundations of the discipline of byzantinology were laid, mainly in Germany and France. In the 16th century scholars like Hieronymo Wolff, David Hoeschel, Wilhelm Holzmann (Xylander), Dennis Petau (Petavius), Johannes van Meursius, Nicholas Alemannus and others, established the initial firm foundations, to be ensued, in the 17th century, by Philippe Labbe, Leo Allatius, Martin Kraus (Martinus Crusius), Jean-Albert Fabricius, Charles du Fresne Du Cange (Ducangius), Jean Mabillon, Bernard de Montfaucon, Anselmo Banduri, Michel Le Quien, and many others. This book also treats the "vicissitudes" suffered by byzantinology in the 18th century despite the presence of important byzantinists in that era. It also refers to the renovated attempts aiming at stabler foundations in the course of the 19th century and especially through the "Herculean" task by Jacques-Paul Migne and his editions of the two Patrologies (Greek and Latin), as well as through pioneer researches and critical editions on the part of great scholars in several European countries.

Contents: References (bibliography-abbreviations) -- Foreword -- Introductory remarks -- Chapter I. Heralding the sixteenth century: from the Greek scholars of the diaspora to Hieronymus Wolff and his successors -- Chapter II. The establishment of studia byzantina in seventeenth-century France. A period of efflorescence -- Chapter III. Byzantium's "trials and tribulations" in the eighteenth-century "Age of Reason": the "spell" of Gibbon and the beginnings of the nineteenth-century recovery in Europe -- Chapter IV. The nineteenth-century European scholars: byzantinology in the path of development -- Bibliographical appendix -- Bibliographical addendum

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