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Contents 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 10 List of Illustrations 14 List of Maps 15 Introduction 16 Chapter 1 A Hellenic Alternative: The Emergence of Greekness in Byzantium 43 Chapter 2 Making the Best of It: The Negotiation of Greekness in Italy 78 Chapter 3 Freedom and Community: The Secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion 107 Chapter 4 The Greek Tradition as a Combat Zone: Hellenocentrism in the Work of George Trapezuntius of Crete 148 Chapter 5 Greekness as Cultural Common Ground: Ianus Lascaris’ Attempt at Greco-Latin Ecumenism 181 Chapter 6 Greekness without Greece: Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo 215 Chapter 7 The Territorialisation of Hellenism: Giovanni Gemisto’s Vision of the Greek World 248 Conclusion: Greece Reinvented 285 Appendices 298 1 Gemisto’s Gallery of Greek Heroes 298 2 Gemisto’s imaginary Greece 308 Bibliography 329 Index 401

Author

Lamers, Han

Published

2015

Language

EN