Theodore Metochites

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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Esotericism; Choumnos; Gregory Of Nazianzus; classical reception; Byzantine literature; rhetoric; byzantine studies; Ethikos; Byzantios; theology